Outlook / the University of Maryland, College Park (2003)

Outlook

The Many
Grooves of a
Multifaceted
Man

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THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FACULTY AND STAFF WEEKLY NEWSPAPER Volume ip ' Number 4 * Fe fern dry 18, 2003

University Helps
Promote Civic

Engagement,
Education

Polls done over the past
few years indicate that
Americans as a whole
believe that learning civics is
important. But they haven't
always transferred that concern
into action.

Increasingly, Americans are
not voting. They are not volun-
teering or taking part in other
basic democratic institutions.
They are not informed.

For Peter Levine, deputy'
director of The Center for Infor-
mation and Research on Civic
Learning and Engagement at
Maryland (CIRCLE), one reason
this is happening is straightfor-
ward. "Civics education has
been inadequate for more than
a generation," he says. "And we
are paying a price for that now."

Increasingly, polls show
young people arc following in
their parent's footsteps. They
are more cynical of government
and less likely to vote. "Our
research shows that the decline
in youth civic participation is
real and worsening," said
William A. Galston, director of
CIRCLE. "The future vitality of
our democracy depends on us
reaching and inspiring younger
Americans.

See CIRCLE, page 6

University
Prepared During
Heightened Alert

The National Homeland
Security Agency has
increased our national and state
threat condition to Level
Orange with an associated high
risk of terrorist attack. This
threat condition prescribes a
high level of alert based upon
intelligence gathering that indi-
cates the high likelihood of ter-
rorist attack within the conti-
nental United States. Specific
targets have not been identified
as a result of this new alert.

The University of Maryland
Department of Public Safety
(UMDPS) automatically imple-
ments response protocols
based upon the current threat
level at the national and local
level to mitigate risk at this
institution. These response pro-
tocols activate different levels
of operational activities under-
taken by the UMDPS to provide
enhanced services to the corn-
See ALERT, page 5

Giving Cole New Purpose

Offices Looking for More Space Turn to Field House

When Cole Field
House ceased oper-
ations as mainly an
athletic facility last
year, it began life as
a multipurpose
building, allowing
units to move from
temporary, cramped
spaces to roomier
digs.

Approximately
20 departments
will soon call Cole
home. To prepare
the aging building
for its new occu-
pants, Facilities
Management
employees convert-
ed locker rooms to
offices and practice space
to conference rooms. For
some, it's been a long
process, but one worth
waiting for.

"Especially to come
along at this time," when
money is so tight, says
Luke Jensen, director of
the Office of Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual andTransgender
(LGBT) Equity, who will
be moving from the Com-
puter and Space Sciences
building. His office pro-
vides drop-in services and
a lounge for the LGBT
community. However, the

PHOTOS BY CYNTHIA MITCHEL

Assistant Organizational
Development Specialist
Denise Maple, Organizational
Development Specialist Laura
Scott and OOE Director Vicky
Foxworth look forward to
moving into their new space
that, as pictured at right, is
not quite ready.

drop-in room is so small
that a student may peek
in, see one other student
and leave, says Jensen .

Brcnda Testa, director of
Facilities Planning, says
Cole's transition actually

See COLE, page 4

Budget Cutbacks Felt University-wide

In one building, rem-
nants of a birthday cele-
bration lingered in a
trash can just a bit too
long for its tenants. An
employee hoping for a late
afternoon scoop of ice cream
one day stood at the closed
doors of the lurner Deli look-
ing disappointed.

All over the campus, direc-
tors are figuring out ways to
work around a hiring freeze
and 5 percent budget reduc-
tion without too significantly
affecting services. One of the
first signs of reduced servic-
es came in the form of a
memo from Harry Teabout
III, director of building and
landscape services late last
month. He informed deans,
directors and department
heads that a reduction of
office area cleaning services
would begin almost immedi-
ately.

"As you may recall, in 1991
we absorbed major cuts to
our budgets and subsequent-
ly to our service levels ," he

wrote. "Though this funding
was never recovered, in 2001
we were able to restore serv-
ices to pre- 1991 levels tltrough
productivity improvements
resulting from the employ-
ment of the latest technology
and cleaning methods."

Sandy Dykes, assistant
director of housekeeping
services, says her staff's
efforts are at capacity,
though. "We've had to fight
back against a lot. We could-
n't absorb any more." She
emphasizes that classrooms,
restrooms and public areas
will not be affected. Office
space workers will be re-
assigned to more public
spaces and annual project
work.

Dining Services' workers
will not be so fortunate.
Since many of the smaller
campus eateries, such as the
Deli, cut back their hours,
employees that worked dur-
ing those times will lose that
hourly pay. Pat Higgins, direc-
tor, said the decision was

based on business volume.

"We examined our volume
of business during our hours
of operation to determine
which hours were non-rev-
enue producing. We used this
analysis to select the hours to
cut in select dining loca-
tions," she says. "It is not cost-
effective to remain open dur-
ing non-revenue producing
or non-peak hours. The cur-
rent volume of business did
not support these additional
hours"

Many on campus remem-
ber the early '90s cutbacks
that resulted in layoffs, so this
latest round of belt-tighten-
ing — while inconvenient and
painful — is preferred. At least
people can keep working,
and they're trying to do so in
the most effective ways.
Dykes says that in 1988, her
staff numbered more than
300 people, but had fewer
buildings to clean. Now,
approximately 164 people

See CUTBACKS, page 7

New
Professor
Brings
New Focus

Materials researchers have
long sought a method to
economically produce
large amounts of spider silk, which
is five times stronger than steel by
weight. A reproductive biologist
who helped develop goats with
spider web silk protein in their
milk joined the university faculty
recently.

Carol L. Keefer, an associate pro-
fessor in the Department of Animal
and Avian Sciences, is excited
about her new work at Maryland.
Keefer said that the new biotech-
nology program made the campus
an attractive option. "It is exciting
and challenging... to have the
opportunity to work with the fac-
ulty in the department and the sci-
entists out at the USDA research
center in Beltsville," Keefer said.
Her post-doctorate work at Johns
Hopkins University and the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania School of Vet-
erinary Medicine was in reproduc-
tive physiology.

She is interested in mammalian
embryology. "How does this one-
cell embryo become the animal
that it is coded to be? What I find
particularly fascinating is how this
cell becomes a goat, a cow, or a
rabbit."

Keefer previously worked for
the Canadian firm Ncxia Biotech-
nologies, where she was part of a
team that took a gene that controls
the production of spider silk pro-
tein and transferred it to goats'
milk secreting cells.

"Spider silk is the strongest fiber
known to man," Keefer said. "It has
numerous applications."

Early research focused on rear-
ing spiders using traditional silk-
worm farming methods, but spi-
ders aren't as docile as silkworms.
"Spiders are very territorial, so you
can't farm them in a herd, because
they'll eat each other up," Keefer
said. "They're not easy to farm like
silkworms. Silkworms can be kept
together in trays on a diet of
leaves."

In preliminary work, Reefer's
colleagues at Nexia placed a silk
protein gene into mammalian cells
grown in culture. Silk protein pro-
duced by these cells was purified,
and in a process developed in part-
nership with the U.S. Army Soldier
Biological Chemical Command in
Natick, Mass., was spun into a silk
fiber. This groundbreaking work
was published in the Jan. 18, 2002
issue of the journal "Science."

Keefer, who earned her biologi-
cal sciences doctorate from the

See KEEFER, page 7

FEBRUARY I 8 , 2003

dateline
maryland

YOUR GUIDE TO UNIVERSITY EVENTS: FEBRUARY 18 - 24

february 18

8:45 a.m.-4 p.m., OIT Short-
course Training: Intermedi-
ate MS Excel 4404 Computer
& Space Science. The course
covers creating charts to ana-
lyze and manipulate data, and
using drawing tools to add
graphic objects and otherwise
modify presentation charts. Pre-
requisite: Introduction to MS
Excel or similar experience.
The class fee is $90. To regis-
ter, visit www.oit.umd.edu/sc.
For more information, contact
Jane S.WieboIdt at 5-0443 or
oit-training@umail. umd.edu.

8:45 a.m.-4 p.m., OIT Short-
course Training: Intermedi-
ate MS Access 4404 Com-
puter & Space Science. The
class fee is $90. To register,
visit www.oit.umd. edu/sc. For
more information, contact Jane
S.WieboIdt at 5-0443 or oit-
training@umai I . umd. edu .

4-6 p.m.. Works In Progress
Seminar Series: Disserta-
tions in Progress Marie
Mount Hall. The following stu-
dents will present their work:
Branch Adams, Department of
English," Entering into the
Study of Renaissance English
Drama;" Phoebe Avery, Depart-
ment of Art History and
Archaeology, "Peter Paul
Rubens (1577-1640): Art in the
Service of the State; "Bryan
Herek, Department of English,
"Early Modern Satire and the
Bishops' Order of 1 599: Manu-
script, Print and Stage;" Helen
Hull, Department of English,
"An Officer and a Gentle-
woman: Representing the
Monarch in If You Know Not
Me, You Know Nobody.'" Light
refreshments will be served.
For more information, contact
Karen Nelson at (301) 405-
6830 or knl5@umail.umd.edu,
or visit www.inform.umd.edu/
crbs/programs.

7-9 p.m., Shanta Driver
Keynote Address Grand Ball-
room. Stamp Student Union.
Shanta Driver, National Coordi-
nator of United for Equity and
Affirmative Action (UEAA) will
give a keynote speech that will
be preceded by the presenta-
tion of the African American
Flag. A mect-and-greet session
will follow. For more informa-
tion, contact Robert Waters at
5-5793 or rewaters@deans,
umd.edu.

Information Technololgy, Management
and Sharing: Keys to Homeland Security

From 3-4 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 20, the College of Information
Studies will host a faculty roundtable in 0109 Horn bake with
Steve Pomerantz, formerly the head of counter-terrorism for
the FBI and currently executive director of Mitretek's Center for
Criminal Justice Technology. Come and share ideas and develop-
ments in the arena of homeland security with one of the leading
experts. Seating is limited and reservations are recommended. E-
mail lstrickl@deans.umd.edu with your name, telephone number
and a subject line of "Will Attend Faculty." For more information,
contact Lee S. Strickland at 4-5452 or lstrickl@deans.umd.edu, or
visit www.clis.umd.edu.

7:30 p.m., Guarneri String
Quartet Open Rehersal

Gildenhorn Recital Hall, Clar-
ice Smith Performing Arts Cen-
ter. The ensemble, now in its
20th year performs. Free. For
more information, visit www.
Clarices mithce nter. umd .edu.

WEDNESDAY

february 19

Deadline for Submitting
Nominations for the Presi-
dent's Commission on
Women's Issues Women of
Color 2003 Award For more
information, see For Your Inter-
est, page 8.

Noon-1 p.m., Why There
Has Never Been a Better
Time to Be a Jewish Terp

01 14 Counseling Center, Shoe-
maker Building. Scott Brown,
Executive Director of the Hillel
Center for Jewish Life, will be

speaking. For more informa-
tion, contact Vivian S. Boyd at

vbl4@umail.umd.edu.

3-4 p.m., Black Europeans?
Racism, Identity and The
Black Athlete 3rd Floor
Lounge, HHP Building. Ben
Canington of the University of
Brighton, U.K., will lecture on
European racism and the poli-
tics of the Black Diaspora. For
more information contact Jane
E. Clark at 5-2450 or jeclark®
umd.edu.

4-6 p.m.. The University at
Shady Grove Open House

9630 Gudelsky Drive,
Rockville.The Unversities at
Shady Grove offer daytime,
evening and weekend graduate
and undergraduate classes.
Admissions and transfer coun-
selors will be present to
answer questions. Fall 2003
applications are now being
accepted. For directions and

more information, call (301)
738-6023 or visit wwwshady-
grove . umd . e du/p rospec ti vestu-

dents/howtogethere.php.

4:30-7 p.m.. Black Cultural
Southern Dinner The Diner
at Ellicott and South Campus
Dining Hall. A dinner featuring
employee recipes and cultural
dining favorites. For more
information, call Patricia Hig-
gins at 4-8054.

7-9 p.m.. The Language
House Showcase Ground
Floor, St. Mary's Hall. Come and
enjoy an evening of perform-
ing and visual arts The show-
case is a talent show prepared
by the Language House stu-
dents to reflect their target lan-
guage or culture. The program
will include songs, dances,
skits, instrumental music, Tai-
Chi demonstrations and exhibi-
tions of paintings, sculptures
and origami. International
refreshments will be served at
the conclusion of the show-
case. For more information, call
5-6996 or e-mail pl67@umail.
umd.edu.

THURSDAY

february 20

3-4 p.m.. The Dynamic Tex-
tual Edition, Underpinnings
and Above with Ray Siemens
6137 McKeldin Library. This
lecture will address the neces-
sary underpinnings and user-
level functionality of a dynam-
ic textual edition where the
dynamic text and the hypertex-
tual edition meet. For more
information, contact Ann Han-
Ion at 5-8927 or ahanlon®
wam.umd.edu, or visit www.
mith2.umd.edu/outreach/dss/
siemcns.html.

7 p.m.. Sixth Annual Cele-
bration of African Ameri-

cans in the Information
Professions Multipurpose
Room, Nyumburu Cultural
Center. The College of Informa-
tion Studies will sponsor this
event, which provides an
opportunity to recognize and
celebrate outstanding achieve-
ment and leadership in the
field. The centerpiece of the
celebration is the presentation
of the annual James Partridge
Outstanding African American
Information Professional
Award, named in honor of its
first recipient five years ago.
This years award wii! be given
to Karen Jefferson, Head,
Archives and Special Collec-
tions, Adanta University' Cen-
ter, Atlanta, Ga. Jefferson is an
archivist/librarian whose work
has included management,
acquisitions, processing, refer-
ence service, outreach and
grantsmanship in support of
African American initiatives in
the academic and scholarly
community and the general
public. The main speaker at
the event will be Peter R.
Young, Director, National Agri-
cultural Library, U.S. Depart-
ment of Agriculture. For more
information, contact Marietta
Plank at (301) 405-3600 or
mplank® dean sumd.edu.

8 p.m., Johannes Brahms'
Ein Deutsches Requiem

Dekelboum Concert Hall,
Clarice Smith Performing Arts
Center. The Maryland Chorus,
University Chorale and Cham-
ber singers, and the Maryland
Symphony Orchestra perform
Brahms' choral masterpiece.
Tickets are $15 for adults, $13
seniors, and $5 for students.
For more information, call
(301) 405-ARTS or visit www.
claricesmithcenter.umd.edu.

february 21

Noon, Behind closed Doors

Riversdale House Museum,
48 1 1 Riverdalc Road, Rivcrdale
Park. More aptly subtided
"everything you always want-
ed to know about early 19th-
century life, but were afraid to
ask," the exhibit tackles the less
elegant aspects of real life in
the early Federal period. Open
Fridays and Sundays, noon to 4
p.m. Admission is $3 for adults,
$2 for seniors and $1 for stu-
dents 18 and under. For more
information, call (301) 864-
0420,TTY (301) 699-2544, or
go to www.pgparks.com.

2-4 p.m.. Campus Conversa-
tions in the Diaspora Confer-
ence Room, Nyumburu Cultur-
al Center. For more information,
contact Toby Jenkins at 4-8439-

february 23

3 p.m., Johannes Brahm's
Ein Deutsches Requiem

Dekelboum Concert Hall,
Clarice Smith Performing Arts
Center. See Thursday, Feb. 20.

february 24

Time TBD, Kwesi Mfume
Speech Hoff Theater, Stamp
Student Union.The NAACP
President will speak on the
importance of voting to the
Black community. For more
information, contact the Black
Student Union at 4-8326.

9 a.m. -4 p.m., Web Design-
er and Developer 101 4404
Computer & Space Science.
For those who are new to Web
development, but have basic
HTML skills. The class will
focus on more advanced fea-
tures and tools of Web page
construction (tables, meta
data, cascading stylesheets,
Photoshop, Dreamweaver). Par-
ticipants will have the oppor-
tunity to develop a simple Web
site in order to demonstrate
their grasp of the skills and
issues presented during four
days of training (Mondays and
Wednesdays, Feb. 24 to March
5). The class fee is $160 for stu-
dents, $200 for staff, and $260
USM associates. Visit www.oit.
umd.edu/wcbdcvelopcr for
detailed agenda and registra-
tion. For more information,
contact Deborah Matcik at 5-
2945 or zdeb@umd.edu.

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OUTLOOK

Libraries Showcase Some of Their Treasures

An array of rare books,
manuscripts, maps, pho-
tographs, artwork and mem-
orabilia is now on display in
the first floor exhibit gallery
in Hornbake Library.

This new exhibit, titled
"Treasures of Special Collec-
tions," celebrates the trans-
formation of Hornbake
Library into one of the pre-
mier special collections facil-
ities in the mid-Atlantic
region. 1 1 features riches
from Marylandia, Rare Books,
the National Trust for His-
toric Preservation Library,
LTniversity Archives, Histori-
cal Manuscripts and Literary
Manuscripts, as well as
broadcasting treasures from
the National Public Broad-
casting Archives and the
Library of American Broad-
casting.

On display are items that
show the exceptional variety
and significance of primary
source materials available to
the public in Special Collec-
tions at the Libraries. Exhibit
viewers will find many inter-
esting items on display,
including;

James Joyce's "Ulysses,"
first edition (1922)

One of only 100 copies
signed by the author, this vol-
ume is arguably the most
influential novel in modern
times and a much sought-
after work of 20th century
fiction.

Maryland Agricultural
College cadet uniform
and dress sword (c. 1914)

The all-male MAC student
body was originally organ-
ized as a corps of cadets.
The young men were
required to wear wool uni-
forms wherever they went
on campus — to class, in the
dormitory, at mealtime, and
at work on the college's
farm. Company commanders
carried a sword for dress
parade.

An original NBC chime
box (early 20th century)

Announcers in pre-tape
days actually had to strike
the notes live on the air; in
later years this famous three-
tone sequence became the
first audio trademark in U.S.
History.

Mark Twain's "Sketches,
New and Old" (1875)

Twain inscribed this copy
to Mary "Aunty" Cord, a for-
mer slave, whose life
inspired Twain in his sketch,
"A True Story, Repeated Word
for Word as 1 Heard It";

Djuna Barnes artwork
(1919-1934)

Barnes was an extraordi-
nary modernist American
author, best known for her
no ve I " Nigh twood "(1936),
but also began her career as
an artist and illustrator.

John White's Americae
Pars, Nunc Virginia Dicta
(1590)

This is the first map print-
ed that contains cartograph-
ic reference to the Chesa-
peake Bay and the oldest
item in the Maryland Map
Collection;

Postcards from the San
Francisco earthquake

(1906)

These unique postcards
depict the destruction of his-
toric buildings in that region
of the country.

PHOTOS COURTESY OF f. BOCHES. UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

Above: In 1930, the "state of the
art" in radio voice transmission
was this Western Electric car-
bon microphone.

Left: These first editions of each
of Djuna Barnes' works repre-
sent almost her entire oeuvre
outside of her journalism.
Barnes, who published rarely
and is pictured here, was con-
sidered a hey figure in mod-
ernist literature during the years
between the two World Wars.

Storyboard for the lower
case "a" segment of
"Sesame Street" (undated)

This popular program
from Children's Television
Workshop assisted genera-
tions of children with read-
ing skills by focusing on a
different letter or number in
each episode.

Fyon Su was the first Kore-
an student to receive a
degree from an American
co Lege or university, graduat-
ing from the Maryland Agri-
cultural College (forerunner
of the University of Mary-
land) in 1891 . Upon complet-
ing his education, he worked
briefly for the LInited States
Department of Agriculture.
Tragically, he was killed by a
train at the College Park rail-
road crossing on Oct. 22,
1891, only months after his
graduation. He is buried in
Beltsville, Maryland, and
today is a highly revered fig-
ure, in Korea.

The exhibit is open to the
public from 10 a.m. to 5
p.m. Monday through Friday,
and noon to 5 p.m. on Satur-
days when the Maryland
Room is open. For more
information, visit www. lib
umd . edu/H BK/s ho wcase .

Marylanders Deeply Skeptical of
Campaign Financing System

Marylanders overwhelm-
ingly believe large cam-
paign contributors buy
political influence, yet see small-
er political donations as legiti-
mate and important, according
to a new study from the Univer-
sity of Maryland and the Univer-
sity of Baltimore.

The results of the statewide
poll also show that a substantial
majority favors some reform
measures in Maryland regulating
contributions and spending.
While a majority favors public
funding of campaigns, only 29
percent were willing to use tax
dollars to implement such a plan.
"The distrust of the system Is
so widespread that it largely cuts
across ideology and political
affiliations," says Paul Herrnson,
director of the Center for Ameri-
can Politics and Citizenship at
Maryland, who analyzed the
results. "Three out of four Mary-
landers see the current system as
corrupt, and the vast majority
embrace at least some reforms,"

At the request of the State
Commission on Public Funding
of Campaigns in Maryland, the
survey questions were added to
a more comprehensive poll on
political attitudes conducted by
the Schaefer Center for Public
Policy, University of Baltimore.
Participants were asked to indi-
cate how strongly they agreed or
disagreed with a series of state-
ments about the impact of politi-
cal contributions and possible
reforms. The telephone survey
of 804 Marylanders was con-
ducted last December and has
an error rate of plus or minus 4
percent.

Attitudes Toward Campaign
Finance System

Marylanders expressed what
the study calls a "marked skep-
ticism" toward the current
fund raising system. Among the
findings:

• Contributions influence
elected officials: 94 percent
agree or strongly agree.

• Contributors have greater
access to elected officials: 84
percent agree or strongly agree.

• Donors too often pressure
office holders for favors: 80 per-
cent agree or strongly agree.

■ Office holders too often
pressure donors for money: 59
percent agree or strongly agree.

• Money is a major source of
political corruption: 75 percent
agree or strongly agree.

• Money is the most impor-
tant factor in elections: 67 per-
cent agree or strongly agree.

• Candidates/elected officials
spend too much time fundrais-
ing: 69 percent agree or strongly
agree.

Yet the survey respondents
did not wholly reject the notion
of campaign contributions: 73
percent agreed or strongly agreed
that contributions represent
legitimate political involvement.

Contributors were more likely

than non-contributors to believe
giving money to a campaign
influenced elected officials. Of
those who gave to a campaign in
the past four years, 85 percent
said contributions have a moder-
ate or great deal of influence on
elected officials. But 71 percent
of those who did not give thought
contributions have a moderate
or great deal of influence.

There was substantial dis-
agreement — along racial, gender,
political and ideological lines —
concerning the impact of cam-
paign financing on the candida-
cies of women and minorities.

Attitudes Toward Reform
Proposals

The survey revealed strong
support for some reform propos-
als, including elimination of "soft
money" contributions. The Bi-
partisan Campaign Reform Act of
2002 prohibited such contribu-
tions at the federal level, but party
and political action committees
in Maryland can still accept
them. Among the findings:

• Limit spending by candi-
dates: 76 percent approve or
strongly approve.

• Ban soft money contribu-
tions: 70 percent approve or
strongly approve,

• Limit TV advertising by or
for candidates: 63 percent
approve or strongly approve.

• Ban contributions by politi-
cal action committees: 55 per-
cent approve or strongly
approve,

• Public funding for statewide
and General Assembly candi-
dates: 53 percent approve or
strongly approve.

Opinions on soft money divid-
ed along racial, partisan and ide-
ological lines. Blacks favored a
soft money ban in Maryland far
more than whites — 60 percent
versus eight percent. Liberals
and moderates favored a ban
more than conservatives — 86
percent versus 68 percent.

Less than a majority would
support increasing limits on the
amounts political parties or indi-
viduals can contribute to candi-
dates. Parties can now give up to
$6,000, individuals up to $4,000.

Support for public funding of
campaigns varied widely by ide-
ology and party. A majority of
Democrats (57 percent) favored
the idea, but only a minority of
Republicans (47 percent). More
liberals (70 percent) approved
than conservatives (55 percent).
But when the question was
phrased in terms of using "tax
money" to support campaign
costs, overall approval dropped
to only 29 percent.

An executive summary of the
report is available at www. cape,
umd . ed u/rp ts/MDCampFi nSrvy-
pdf. Herrnson has conducted a
series of studies over the past
several years tracking campaign
finance in Maryland. These are
available online at www. cape.
umd.edu/research.asp.

FEBRUARY I 8 , 2003

Book Bag

War after
September 11

Benjamin R. Barber,
Robert K. Fullinwider
and Judith Lichten-
berg. William A. Gal-
ston, director of the
Institute, contributed
the introduction. The
volume was edited by
Verna V. Gehring. All
present or former
scholars of the Insti-
tute for Philosophy
and Public Policy.

(Rowman & Little-
field Publishers, 2003)

A collection of
essays that considers
the just aims and
legitimate limits of the
U.S. response to the
terrorists attacks.

Liberal Pluralism:
The Implications of
Value Pluralism for

Political Theory
and Practice

William A. Galston,
director of the Insti-
tute for Philosophy
and Public Policy

(Cambridge Uni-
versity Press 2002),

Galston defends a
version of value plu-
ralism for political
theory and practice,
arguing that it under-
girds a kind of liberal
politics that gives
great weight to the
ability of individuals
and groups to live
their lives in accor-
dance with their deep-
est beliefs about what
gives meaning and
purpose to life.

Canine Courage:
The Heroism of
Dogs

Tiffin Shewmake,
School of Public
Affairs

( PageFree Publish-
ing, 2002)

An in-depth look at
dog heroism and loy-
alty. The book is
about trained and
untrained dogs who
save lives and help
their disabled owners.

Making a Place for
Community: Local
Democracy in a
Global Era

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ences

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Presents an
extraordinary array of
community building
strategies and offers
a blueprint for
rebuilding the heart
of American demo-
cratic life — its towns
and cities.

Launching into
Cyberspace:
Internet

Development and
Politics in Five
World Regions

Marcus Franda,
professor of govern-
ment and politics

ILynne Rienner
Publishers, 2002)

Examines the
spread of the Internet
to five world regions
and factors impinging
on its growth and
development.

China and India
Online: Information
Technology Politics
and Diplomacy in
the World's Two
Largest Regions

Marcus Franda,
professor of govern-
ment and politics

(Rowman & Littfe-
field Publishers, Inc.,
2002)

This third volume
in a series compares
the politics and diplo-
macy of information
technology develop-
ment in the two most
populous nations.

The Moral
Foundations of
Trust

Eric M. Uslander,
professor of govern-
ment and politics

(Cambridge Univer-
sity Press, 2002)

Declining optimism
and increasing eco-
nomic inequality have
caused a decline in
trust. The book seeks
to explain why people
place their faith in
strangers and why
doing so matters.

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Cole: Refurbished Offices, New Tenants

Continued from page 1

began in the days of former
Senior Vice President of Acad-
emic Affairs and Provost Gre-
gory Geoffroy. He envisioned
giving this field house and
Preinkert Gym over to aca-
demic purposes as space
became an issue. Newer
offices, such as Jensen's, took
up residence where they
could, though not always in a
place that made sense. Eng-
lish teaching assistants, now
moving into Preinkert, called
temporary trailers west of
South Campus Dining Hall
headquarters. Others have
just outgrown their original
room, such as the Office for
Organizational Effectiveness
(OOE). Now housed in the
Mitchell Building in a cubicle
and one office, OOE will
move into one suite in Cole.

"We have three staff people
and one work study student.
Two of us fit comfortably in
space the Office of Institu-
tional Research and Planning
has kindly shared with us,"
says Vicky Foxworth, director
of OOE "We're excited. Well
have three times as much
space as we do now... which
is very helpful given the
nature of our work and the
range and quantity of the
projects we're undertaking
for campus clients ."

To help determine who
would get to move into Cole,
David Falk, assistant vice pres-
ident of academic affairs,
went to a council of deans
meeting to solicit requests,
since most of the cost of
reusing the building would be
borne by that body. Testa says
"a very modest amount"
agreed to by the administra-
tion and the Department of
Academic Affairs funded the changes. A
working group of deans "wrestled with
assignments and assessments," says Testa. "It
was a consensus of win-wins. . .with very lit-
tle pain in the process."

Making the transition requires a lot of
coordination and input from those moving
into the buildings, says Testa. While some
may just need "paint and patch" work, other
tenant spaces need complete reworking.
Campus Recreation Services will manage
the facility through a full-time person. Curt
Callahan, who was assistant athletic direc-

PHOTOS BV CVNTH1A MITCHEl

In the Cole office space formerly occupied by men's basketball
head coach Gary Williams, work crews make headway on reno-
vations. Top: Locksmith and all-around building expert Kelly
Smith installs new locks on doors. Above. Sonny Adams paints
trim in the reception area while Rick Williams (background)
paints window trim in an office.

tor, operations. He also will work with stu-
dent affairs on non-athletic events that use
the field house floor. Callahan, who's been
with Maryland athletics for several years,
seems a perfect fit for the new responsibili-
ties.

"There's no ownership of Cole," explains
Director of FM Operations and Maintenance
Jack Baker. "Curt will be in a position to
bridge between academic affairs and facility
issues beyond broken doorknobs. He'll be a
tremendous asset and will make my life
much easier when dealing with Cole."

H

ere is a list of who is, or will be, moving into Cole Field House and Preinkert Gym.
Many of the occupants are divisions of larger schools, colleges or departments:

Cole occupants

Agriculture and Natural
Resources' Urban Forestry
department

Army ROTC

Art History

Asian American Studies
Program

Baltimore Incentive
Awards Program

Behavioral and Social Sci-
ences

College of Computer,
Mathematical, and Physical
Sciences' Association of
Women in Mathematics

Campus Recreation Svcs.

College of Education

Health and Human Perfor-
mance

International Programs

Philip Merrill College of
Journalism's Knight Center

LGBT Equity Office

Libraries, storage

College of Life Sciences'
Marine Estuarine Environ-
mental Sciences/Conserva-
tion Biology programs

OOE

Orientation

Staff Ombuds Office/
President's Commission on
Women's Issues

Theatre

Preinkert occupants

School of Architecture

Division of Academic
Affairs

School of Public Affairs

Hubert Humphrey Jour-
nalism Program

East Asia Freeman pro-
gram

College of Arts and
Humanities

College of Behavioral and
Social Sciences

General purpose class-
rooms

OUTLOOK

It's a Dirty Job, But Someone's Got to Do It

Editor's note: This is the first in a tux)-part series on the
university's solid waste management division. Journalism
student Melissa Ostrow spent a morning with two
employees as tbey went about their jobs. In this week's
installment, she rides around in the front-end loader.

My alarm blared
and I quickly
got out of bed
and tried to brush off the
sleep. Showered and
filled with hot oatmeal
by 4:30 a.m., I was off. I
thanked the skies that I
didn't have to do this
every day.

Today, 1 was going to
he picking up garbage
with the solid waste
guys at the University of
Maryland.

Every week people all over
the country have a scheduled
day where they collect the
garbage around their house
and put it on the curb. By the
time they wake the next
morning or return from work
in the evening, all the garbage
they had accumulated is
gone.

I would be spending half
the morning riding around on
the front -end loader with
Renay Bell, or, as the guys call
him, "Rey," and the second
half of the day with Mark Wil-
son on the rolloff trash truck.

When I got to their trailer
at 4:45 a.m., Rey had already
clocked in and gone to get
the truck. So I sat with the
other five men, while they
threw on their coveralls and
drank their coffee. They all
seemed pretty lively for this
early hour.

"It's OK, not hard work, you
just have to get used to the
hours. I like the hours now
no traffic coming or going
from work," said Chester
Tapp, who has been at the
university for nine years.

Not one minute after 5 a.m.
my chariot arrived, a large
white and red frontend loader
with a big terrapin on the
side. Rey greeted me with a
smile and helped me pull
myself into the large truck.
Inside smooth jazz played on
the radio and a small televi-
sion hung from the wind-
shield. The television was to
help Rey see what was going
on behind him. He doesn't
want to crush any students.

The smooth melody of the
radio was soon interrupted
by the loud engine and the
beeping sound that signaled
the hazards were on. I
thought the beeping would
torture me like water being
dripped down your face, but
the sound just blended into
the atmosphere. Rey always
keeps the hazards on in the
morning to make sure people
know he is there. "There arc a
lot of drunks out at 4 a.m.,"
Rey says.

Rey is a big guy, around
6'3", born and raised in the
District. He attended Howard
University on a football schol-
arship "That is all I did," he
says as he talks about his stu-

"... trash has to be
moved every day,
because nobody
wants to be around
garbage."

— R.EY BELl

dent days. Rey was in the
accelerated chemistry pro-
gram, because he wanted to
be a dentist, but football and
partying got the best of him.

"I didn't really learn. Being
an athlete, you need to stick
to the books, so that when
sports can't carry you, you
have something to fall back
on."

After three years at Howard,
he left school to travel around
the world, following his high
school sweetheart (who he
eventually married) on her
tour of duty in the Navy.

We pulled up to our first
dumpster hidden
behind one of the academic
buildings. The giant claws
came from under the sides of
the truck and hooked into the
handles on the dumpster, lift-
ing it. It just hung there, look-
ing weightless. Then Rey
backed away from the curb
and the large claws lifted the
dumpster over our heads and
shook the contents into the
back of the truck. After the
dumpster was empty, the
arms came back down and
placed the dumpster back in
its original place. Then he
pushed a big button and we
heard the compressor squish-
ing all of the garbage into the
back of the truck. Rey and the
other solid waste guys have
to have either a class A or B
classified drivers license and
receive a physical every two
years to drive the trucks.

Rey's family owns a solid
waste trucking company. His
uncle didn't want to "move
on with the times," so Rey
came to work for the univer-
sity. He could never work for
a private company, he says,
because it would be an insult
to his family.

The main thing Rey wor-
ries about while working on
campus is the kids. They
don't pay attention. Students
have the privilege of a clean

campus, but when they see
this large truck cruising down
the road, they just walk right
into its path. They never seem
to notice the large truck or
the men that keep their
school clean. The students are
also the reason Rey does the
administrative buildings first
thing in the morning. The
drivers are not allowed near
dorms before 7 a.m.

One morning, Rey thought
he saw a carpet lying in the
middle of the road, then he
realized it was moving. He
pulled over and saw that it
was a drunk kid lying in the
middle of the road. Occasion-
al weird occurrences aside,
his days are pretty much the
same.

According to the Environ-
mental Protection Agency,
each U.S. citizen creates
about 1,628 pounds of
garbage a year, with about
34,160 students and 28,147
faculty and staff, one can only
imagine the amount of
garbage produced on cam-
pus. The truck's arms can
pick up 1 0,000 pounds of
garbage without any problem.
Rey usually doesn't have to
worry about a dumpster
being too heavy unless a con-
tractor has put dirt in it.

Most schools with smaller
populations don't have their
own crews and trucks.
Besides being a large state
school, the campus was here
before College Park really
became a city, so the school
has always had its own solid
waste department, according
to Robert Stumpff, coordinator
of General Services.

Several of the dumpsters
overflow and Rey has to pick
up what people haven't made
the effort to put into the
dumpster. I was annoyed that
people were so inconsiderate,
but Rey didn't seem to mind.
It's worse for him when peo-
ple don't tie things up and
Styrofoam gets all over the
place.

Does he like his job? "I like
it. It's hassle free, because
nobody else is out here, but
you and the truck," he said.
"It's just a job.

" [Butj nobody knows what
we go through, they just
know that they want their
dumpsters emptied. The trash

has to be moved. You may be
able to go a few days without
an electrician or a plumber,
but trash has to be moved
every day, because nobody
wants to be around garbage.
You get rats and roaches."

The City of College Park
serves a much smaller popula-
tion, 25,000 people, and has a
little less garbage (6,568 tons,
21.4 percent of which is recy-
cled) but those people all live
here year-round. However,
instead of just six guys on
staff like at the university,
they have about 25 workers.

Last fiscal year, campus
workers picked up 9,596.37
tons of garbage with 1,963.20
tons recycled (.7 percent
higher than the required
amount). That is a lot of
garbage for guys whose
salaries range from $22,210
to $32,210. The pay range is
about the same as city work-
ers, with the same benefits —
it is a myth that garbage men
get paid well. With that in
mind, I had to ask why do the
guys do it?

Rey does it for his kids, two
teenage girls. Working for the
university will allow them to
go to college with reduced
tuition. Each day he wakes
up, leaves his house in Upper
Marlboro and works from 5
a.m. until 1 :30 p.m. He picks
up his girls at school at 3-30,
then heads to his second job,
at a hospital, from 4:30 p.m.
to 12:30 a.m.

Rey regrets not finishing
college. "If I could do it again,
I would have left sports to
high school." He tells his girls
"to shoot high, the sky is the
limit, that way they can't say
they didn't try."

Alert: Ready

Continued from page 1

munity and to engage the com-
munity in a collaborative state of
vigilance against threatening
activities.

The UMDPS wants to make the
campus aware of the impact of
this state of alert to the campus
community by providing general
information about the institutional
response that can be expected
and what is expected of communi-
ty members during these uncer-
tain times.

For the duration of the height-
ened threat condition, the UMDPS
will engage in the following
activities on a daily basis to aug-
ment normal safety and security
activities:

■ Maintain an institutional liai-
son with loci] . state, and federal
agencies to facilitate information
sharing with the campus commu-
nity.

■ Provide increased uniformed
police officer visibility at designat-
ed areas and during campus spe-
cial events.

What you can do as a
community member

Public Safety is calling on cam-
pus community members to be
vigilant in immediately reporting
suspicious activity observed on
campus. Individuals' intimate
knowledge of personal space and
areas they frequent on campus
enable them to best judge persons
or conditions that are out of place
or suspicious.

To report anything that seems
out of the ordinary, immediately
call the UMDPS at x91 1 from a
campus phone or (301) 405-3333
from off campus or cell phones.

The community's assistance in
alerting officers to suspicious con-
ditions, events, or persons is a criti-
cal component of maintaining a
safe and secure campus.

Direct any questions to the Pub-
lic Information Officer, Major
Cathy Atwell, at (301) 641-8679 or
e-mail her at CAtwell@umpd.umd.
edu. For more on the campus'
plans, go to www.umpd.umd.edu/
pubinfo/heightenedalerthtm.

People are also encouraged to
learn more about preparing for
specific emergencies by visiting
additional Web sites below:

• wwwmcma.domestic-prepa-
redness.net/alerts.html (Maryland
Emergency Management Agency
overview of the MD Threat Alert
System and guidance for citizens,
businesses and schools)

• www.mdsp.org/cybertip.htm
(Maryland State Police Counter
Terrorism Cyber Tip site)

• www.redcross.org/services/
disaster/bep repared/hsas . h tml
(American Red Cross Homeland
Security Advisory System)

• www.fema.gov/pdf/areyou
ready/security. pdf (Federal Emer-
gency Management Agency site
dealing with national security
emergencies and terrorism).

FEBRUARY l8

oo 3

Home Web Use Offsets Personal Use at Work

Computer Guy Stays in the Music Mix

PHOTO COUHTESY OF G CUFtTIS

Geoffrey Curtis spends his off hours in several areas of the entertainment industry.

Almost everyone can
remember the guy
who came to the
party with the best
music. No matter what was
playing, after his tapes started,
it was always a better party.

Geoffrey Curtis, University
Relations' assistant LAN manag-
er, is that guy.

Since leaving Wilde Lake
High School in Columbia, Md.,
Curtis has been either a DJ or a
producer of mix tapes for com-
merical radio stations, major
record labels and parties. Inter-
estingly, he got his start, he
says, because he didn't like
what he heard on the radio.

"People liked them and after
a while, they would ask me if I
would do some tapes for
them," says Curtis. "Finally,
somebody asked me if I'd con-
sidered submitting these tapes
to radio stations. I hadn't."

An AM Baltimore station,
WEBB 1 360, was known to
play tapes submitted from the
public. Though amateur, the
quality had to be good. Curtis
called the manager and asked
what he needed to do.

"He said, Put together three
mixes, one mix per song.' So I
did 'Huevo Dancing' by Fresh
Face, Buffalo Gals' by Malcolm
McLaren and the Supreme
Team and 'It's in the Mix' by
Iceberg Slim. I put it on a 60
minute, TDK tape and I still
have it and it still plays."

The station liked his work
and began playing Curtis" songs
on the radio. He remembers
when he heard his work on air
for the first time. "It was April
1, 1983. 1 remember the date
because it was April Fools Day
and when I told people my
stuff was on the air, no one

believed me."

Curtis continued working
for WEBB while he went to
Howard County Community
College for a data processing
degree. Calling education his
"cushion," he paid for it
through his work as a DJ for
parties. He moved on to UMBC
to get a bachelor's in informa-
tion systems management, and
didn't need financial aid until
near the end.

His double life continued
after Curtis left the Baltmore
station in 1 988 to work at
urban station WPGC-FM 95.5.A
friend pulled him on board to
do production work, even
though there really wasn't a
position available. "But my mix
tapes gave the station an
advantage," says Curtis. He also
started working as a DJ on Fri-
days, from 7 p.m. to midnight.
Curtis stayed at the Washing-
ton, DC. station until 1994. You
can now find him on-air at Bal-
timore's WERQ-FM 92 ("92Q")
from 5 to 6 p.m., and then
again from 1 1 p.m.-l a.m. on
Friday.

Though he sort of "fell into"
his music career initially, it is
now something Curtis pursues
with purpose. At the same time
he began working forWPGC,
he picked up production work
for Warner Brothers Records,
Columbia Records, Atlantic
Records and East- West Records.
Some of his most recognizable
mixes, both for Atlantic
Records, are "One in a Million"
by late R&B singer Aaliyah and
"Bass Power" by Raze featuring
Doug Lazy. Curtis says, because
record companies send new
music to him for possible air-
play at 92Q, he takes the
opportunity to pitch mixes to

company representatives." I
counter sell," says Curtis with a
grin.

Most of his work is done in
his townhouse basement stu-
dio in Columbia through his
company, Edgemix Productions.
He would love to work with
legendary R&B group Earth,
Wind and Fire, and he is about
to work on a song by another
legend, the Isley Brothers.

As if working at the universi-
ty and working for major
record labels isn't enough, Cur-
tis collects and shows films. He
owns more than 1 00 movies
he bought from private film
dealers, though because of
licensing reasons he rents films
from a distributor for his pub-
lic shows. He was inspired by a
man who shows movies in the
summer at Columbia's Lake
Kittamaqundi.

"Why do 1 like movies?The
reels look neat! At least to a 10
year old they did. That film
comes to life on the screen. I
started showing movies when 1
was 12 to the neighbor-
hood... There was an open field
behind my house. I would bor-
row movies from the Enoch
Pratt Library in Baltimore. 1
wouldn't charge, but I sold
popcorn, that's how I got
around the whole allowance
issue."

In 1980, he showed his last
film for a while, "Saturday
Night Fever." He started back
again in 1996, showing Dis-
ney's "101 Dalmatians" with
Glenn Close." I started again
because a neighbor encour-
aged me to. We've had a huge
influx of little kids."

Curtis says he's available for
private parties, both as a DJ
and for movie showings.

American workers spend
more of their personal
time using the Internet
to do office work at home than
they do using the Web for per-
sonal purposes on the job,
according to the 2002 National
Technology Readiness Survey
(NTRS), co-sponsored by the
Center for c-Scrvice at the
Robert H.Smith School of Busi-
ness and Rockbridge Associ-
ates, Inc.

The survey, cotiducted last
December, found that employ-
ees with Web access at both the
office and at home, spend an
average of 3.7 hours per week
engaged in personal online
activities while on the job, but
they spend more time — an aver-
age of 5.9 hours per week —
using the Internet at home, for
work-related purposes.

"Businesses often clamp down
on persona] use of the Internet
at work, citing concerns about
productivity, but this study indi-
cates "workers more than make
up for it at home," said Roland
Rust, director of the Center for
e-Service at the Smith School.
The survey suggests companies
should accept some personal
use of the Internet at work as
not only inevitable, but as posi-
tive to the organization. Totally
segregating work from personal

activities might result in a net
decline in work performed, not
to mention lower workplace
morale."

Fully 85 percent of survey
participants with online Web
access at work admitted using
the Internet on the job for per-
sonal purposes. The survey
found that workers who do not
have Internet access at home
spend more time doing person-
al Web business at work— an
average of 6.5 hours per week
compared to the 37 hours per
week spent online by those
who do have home access.

"The Internet gives people
more freedom and flexibility,
allowing a busy person to leave
the office on time to have din-
ner with the family, and then
finish up work-related loose
ends using the Internet at
home," said Charles Colby, presi-
dent of Rockbridge Associates,
Inc. "Many people conduct per-
sonal business on the Web at
■work to take advantage of high-
speed Internet access. As we
see better infrastructure intro-
duced at home, we may see less
workplace time spent on per-
sonal Internet activities,"

The survey results, including
detailed tables, can be viewed
online at www.rhsmith.umd.
edu/ntrs2002.

CIRCLE:

Continued from page 1

Reviving Civics

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To try and tackle this prob-
lem, CIRCLE and the Carnegie
Corporation of New York
recently completed what is
being called a landmark report
on how to improve civic educa-
tion at all grade levels. A diverse
group of nearly 60 leading
experts and practitioners
helped write The Civic Mission
of Schools report.

Released Feb. 13 during a
Washington, D.C., news confer-
ence, the report focuses on
schools as the best place for
civic education to be taught.
"Schools are the only institu-
tions with the capacity and
mandate to reach virtually every
young person in the country,"
according to the report. It goes
on to note "Many non-school
institutions. . have lost the
capacity or will to engage
young people."

The Civic Mission of Schools
recommends a number of ways
schools can develop what it
calls "competent and responsi-
ble citizens." They include:

• Providing greater instruc-
tion in government, history, law
and democracy.

• Discussing current events
and issues, especially those that
young people view as important
to their lives.

• Giving young people the
opportunity to take what they
learn and apply it through com-
munity service.

• Offer extracurricular activi-
ties that let kids get involved
with their communities.

• Encourage participation in

student government.

• Encourage student partici-
pation in events that simulate
democratic procedures and
processes.

The report provides what it
calls a "framework" for creating
more effective civic education
programs around the country. It
recommends, for example, that
there be national standards for
civics education, that elected
officials actively promote civic
education by visiting schools,
that schools of education
should strengthen their civics
offerings and the federal gov-
ernment needs to increase the
amount it spends on civic edu-
cation.

One bright spot: the report
says young people are increas-
ingly involved in community
service and volunteering. This
is a "positive trend" the report
says schools can build on to
help engage students in civic
education.

But as CIRCLE'S Levine says,
much more needs to be done:
"Without civic education, peo-
ple cannot participate fully in
political life and in their com-
munities. And if people do not
participate, then important
issues are handled by elites or
not addressed at all."

The White House is also try-
ing to jump-start the issue. The
civic education report was a pri-
mary topic during a youtii sum-
mit held there Feb. 17.

For a copy of the report and
a list of the contributors, visit
www. c ivic missio nof schools, org.

OUTLOOK

Cutbacks: Prioritizing

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clean more than twice the
facilities.

"We're being mega-pro-
ductive" saysTeabout.

Departments also have
the option of hiring extra
housekeeping services,
such as is being done in the
Clarice Smith Performing
Arts Center. Another large
venue, the Campus Recre-
ation Center, is cleaned by
23 people who work
through the Department of

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"We've had to fight
back against a lot.
We couldn't absorb
any more."

—SANDY DYKES

Resident Life. However,
Comcast's offices, training
and practice spaces are
cleaned by only six Facili-
ties Management person-
nel

In Operations and Main-
tenance, the hardest hit
shop is heating, ventilation
and air conditioning, which
is looking at a 30 percent
vacancy rate. Director Jack
Baker says it is difficult to
hire technicians because he
can't compete with private
sector wages. "We're histori-
cally understaffed.. .and the
budget cuts just made a
bad problem worse."

He says of all the com-
plaints and concerns he
hears, those dealing with
work environment are the
most frequent and vehe-
ment. Unfortunately, it will
be more difficult to
respond to people's needs
as he loses people and
can't replace them. "If we
have a whole building
problem, for example, that
will take precedence over
an office problem.

"We've got to pull back
and prioritize the work. It's
an interesting exercise."
Baker says he can be faced
with decisions such as
responding to a researcher
with thousands of dollars
and years of research at
stake or a lecture hall of
500 students taking a test

in a too-warm or too-cold
room.

What would be helpful,
says Baker, is if people
could be more understand-
ing. Logging 1 5 calls to his
shops about the same con-
cern will not necessarily
speed up response time.

To minimize confusion
and frustration with her
department, Dykes is work-
ing on a schedule to post
on the Facilities Manage-
ment (FM) Web site that
lets people keep track of
what cleaning services
their building or floor will
receive and when. Her peo-
ple work in two shifts, one
from 4 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
and the second from 10
p.m. to 6:30 a.m.

"The first four hours of
the first shift, before peo-
ple come on campus, are
the most productive," she
says.

One way the campus can
help housekeeping is to
know their office's status.
Many office or academic
areas are off-master, mean-
ing that neither Dykes nor
Teabout have master keys
that will allow them to
come in and clean or dump
trash. Tenants of those
spaces often ask house-
keeping to come in while
the offices are open, "but
we don't have people just
wandering around looking
for open doors," says Dykes.
To find out an office's sta-
tus, faculty and staff can
call FM's lock shop at 001 )
314-4444.

Overall, directors say the
campus community has
been supportive, both
those working and those
receiving services. It's a
"we're all in the together"
attitude people adopt.

"We have received some
questions regarding our
shortened hours, but since
the current budget crisis
affects all of campus, our
customers seem to under-
stand, or are trying to
understand, the business
decisions we have made,"
says Higgins. Echoing other
directors sentiments, she
adds, "We certainly regret
the inconvenience."

Global Peace Trends Persist Despite New Crises

The number of
regional and
civil wars
around the world has
continued declining
to unprecedented lev-
els over the past two
years — despite a rash
of high profile interna-
tional crises — accord-
ing to a new report
from the university's
Center for Internation-
al Development and
Conflict Management
(CIDCM).

The report, "Peace
and Conflict 2003,"
shows that warfare
has decreased 60 per-
cent globally since
1991 ■ International
crises have dropped
nearly 50 percent. The
number of democra-
cies has doubled since
1985. In the last two years alone,
nine separatist wars have moved
from the battlefield to the negoti-
ating table.

But the report warns that this
new stability in former trouble
spots is fragile, A potential war
with Iraq and nuclear tensions
with North Korea head the list of
challenges that cast a shadow
over the recent increase in
peace and security. Others
include the ongoing struggle
against terrorism, unresolved
tensions in Afghanistan and the
former Yugoslavia, increasing vio-
lence in Colombia and the face-
off between nuclear powers
India and Pakistan.

The new peace "is carrying
forty-eight unstable regimes, thir-
ty-three societies recovering from
recently ended wars and twenty-
five societies still locked in vio-
lent struggles," the report says. In
a world of increasing tension,
these poor and war-ravaged soci-
eties are prone to instability and
state failure. This combination of
growing tension and vulnerable
societies presents crucial chal-
lenges to U.S. policy makers.

The report cautions against "the
perception, especially in the Unit-
ed States, that some security
threats are impervious to peaceful
or multilateral solutions." Military
force may be necessary to contain
some crises, says Ted Robert Gurr,
a principal author of the report
and professor of government and
politics, "but war shifts interna-
tional attention and resources
away from long-term constructive
efforts at conflict management.

On the above graphic, the darkest areas represent areas with the greatest risk of new out-
breaks of armed conflict. The medium shaded areas are countries facing serious risk and
the lightest areas are lowest risk countries..

And it risks spillover effects that
destabilize other areas."

The war on terror also poses
special risks for U.S. policy mak-
ers."The transformation of the
'global war on terrorism' to a
'clash of civilizations' would most
certainly lead to a major reversal
of established trends in warfare,
democratization and prosperity,"
says Monty Marshall, a principal
author of the report and research
scientist at CIDCM. "Initial victo-
ries are often followed by costly
obligations and long-term risks."

Diplomatic engagement and
political pressure has worked best
at containing recent conflicts, the
report says. Sanctions, quarantines
and military interventions have
been more problematic.

The centerpiece of "Peace and
Conflict 2003" is a unique cata-
logue and ranking of conflict
within nations; what it calls a
"peace and conflict ledger." Using
eight measures of capacity for
building peace and avoiding
armed conflict, the ledger assigns
red or yellow flags to mark unsta-
ble situations, green flags to stable
countries.

Africa has the greatest concen-
tration of red flags. Yellow flags
mainly mark Asia, while the Mid-
dle East is ringed by red flags
from North Africa to the Caucasus
to Afghanistan. The ledger shows
Nigeria and Congo-Kinshasa
among the most critical countries
in Africa. In Asia, a tangle of tlueat-
ening crises is topped by the
nuclear threat in the Pakistan-
India conflict.

The potential for renewed con-

flict is balanced by strong gains
and some surprising successes,
mainly the persistence of the new
democracies formed after the end
of the Cold War, the report says.
Most remain fragile though,
deserving "redoubled internation-
al encouragement and support,"

Another success story is the
endurance of diplomatic solutions
to conflicts once thought
intractable, "The first years of the
new millennium have produced a
virtual cascade of peace talks and
settlements in civil wars and
negotiations in international con-
flicts," the report says. The Israel-
Palestine conflict is among the
very few in which negotiated
solutions have failed.

CIDCM issued a similar report
in 2001. The updated version says
gains in peace and democracy
have been sustained over the past
two years and in some instances
have improved. During 2002,
peace accords were reached in
two of the world's longest and
most deadly civil wars, in Angola
and Sudan. International diplomat-
ic pressures helped push India
and Pakistan back from the brink
of nuclear war.

The report is available online
at www.cidcm.umd.edu/peace_
and_conflict_2003.htm. The
Carnegie Corporation of New
York and the William and Flora
Hewlett Foundation funded the
report. CIDCM is an interdiscipli-
nary research and training center
specializing in civil and interna-
tional conflict, second track
diplomacy and the global digital
divide.

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University of Delaware, and her
Nexia colleagues successfully
transferred a spider's silk pro-
tein gene into goats' eggs. These
eggs were placed into the
womb of surrogate mother
goats. The resulting kids (young
goats) had spider silk protein in
their milk.

There are many possible uses
for the spider silk. "The one I
find most exciting is the pro-

duction of medical sutures,
because you can have really fine
but strong medical sutures for
doing really fine surgeries," .
Keefer said. "These have to go
through trials and testing to be
sure [that they are safe], but
they would be biocompatible
and biodegradable, so they
would last long enough to do
the effective work of a suture
but would then break down."

If enough silk can be pro-
duced, sheets of fabric might be
woven and used to make spider
silk bulletproof vests that are
much stronger and lighter than
Kevlar.The silk may also be
used to make fishing line.

Keefer said that for now she
will have to leave her research
with silk-producing goats
behind, but hopes to develop a
research association with Nexia

in the future. In her research at
Maryland, Keefer will try to
develop an embryonic stem cell
model in goats, "One of the pro-
posals for embryonic stem cells
and also adult stem cells is that
they be used for research pur-
poses to study disease process-
es and for medical therapies.
But the problem is we need
other animal models to study
how this really works, because

you don't want to try these
things for the first time with
humans, and currently this work
is only passible with mice,"
Keefer said.

Once she has settled into life
at Maryland, Keefer will help
develop undergraduate and
graduate programs in animal
biotechnology.

— Stephen E. Madier,
graduate journalism student

FEBRUARY I 8 , 2003

Safety Training Session

The Department of Environ-
mental Safety (DES) hosts a lab-
oratory safety orientation train-
ing session each month. This
training is offered to assure reg-
ulatory compliance. The next
training session will be held on
Thursday, Feb. 20, 9:30 to 1 1
a.m., in room 3104 Chesapeake
Building. Space is limited. To
reserve a seat, contact Jeanette
Cartron at (301) 405-2131 or
j cartron @ac email . umd . ed u .

Perfect Illusions: Eating
Disorders and The Family

Airing on PBS stations nation-
wide on Monday, Feb. 24 at 10
p.m., this new documentary-
focuses on the dramatic experi-
ences of four families whose
lives have been affected by eat-
ing disorders.

In observation of the 2003
National Eating Disorders
Awareness Week, the Universi-
ty Counseling Center offers:

■ Informational hand-outs
for copying and distributing

* Resources for treatment
and support

• Walk-in hours: Counseling
Center (4-765 1), on Tuesday
and Wednesday, Feb. 25 and 26,
8:30 a.m. to noon; the Health
Center (4-8142) on Wednesday,
Feb. 26,8:30 a.m.-noon.

For further information on
the film, visit www.nationaleat-
ingdisorders.org and click on
"Perfect Illusions ."

Read Across America

Four hundred volunteers are
needed to read with four hun-
dred second-grade children on
Thursday, Feb, 27 from 10:45
a.m. to 1 p.m. The event will
be held in the Clarice Smith
Performing Arts Center Lobby.
Volunteers will be matched
one-to-one with a child, so they
must be available the entire
time. Departments, student
organizations, classes and other
groups are welcome to volun-
teer together.

For more details and to
receive a sign-up sheet, Contact
Elsa Clausen at (301) 314-READ
or arac@accmail.umd.edu. A
prompt response is appreciat-
ed. The event is sponsored by
America Reads/America Counts,
a federal work-study tutoring
program and a unit of the
office of Community Service.

Nominations: Teaching
with Technology Award

Nominations for the "Universi-
ty of Maryland Award for Inno-
vation in Teaching with Tech-
nology" are now being accept-
ed. Co-sponsored by the Office
of Information Technology and
the Office of Undergraduate
Studies, this award recognizes
outstanding accomplishments
in the use of technology to
promote excellence in teach-
ing and learning, and it helps
highlight the many ways in

New Time for Spring Commencement

FILE PHOTO BY JOHN V, CONSOLI

Maryland seniors planning to graduate in May have some schedule changes to
make. The campus-wide commencement ceremony is being moved from
Friday, May 23 at 9:30 a.m. to Thursday, May 22 at 7 p.m. The new
Comcast Center remains the venue. The student procession will now begin at 6:30
p.m. with the platform party marching in at 7 p.m. Franklin Raines, the CEO of
Fannie Mae, will be the commencement speaker.

According to President Dan Mote, "An evening event that brings graduates
together with their friends and families before the college and department celebrations
will increase the spirit and success of our commencement activities."

The individual school graduation ceremonies will take place on Friday, May 23 at
9 a.m., noon and 3 p.m.

which our university has taken
leadership in this critical area.
If you qualify, please consider
applying for this award. Individ-
uals or groups may apply. The
application deadline is Feb. 28.
For more information, visit
www.oit.umd.edu/as/UMiTT/.

Jazi Night Returns to
the Golf Course

live Jazz is back for the spring
semester at the University Golf
Course, every Thursday, begin-
ning Feb. 6 through March 1 3,
from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Jazz
night features our favorite uni-
versity jazz band Cheek to
Cheek. For more information,
contact Chris Cantore (301 )
314-6630 at ccantore@dining.
umd.edu or visit www.dining.
umd . edu/locations/golf_course .

Nominations: Women of
Color Award 2003

Each year the President's Com-
mission on Women's Issues
honors one or two outstanding
Women of Color on our cam-
pus for their exemplary contri-
butions to the university com-
munity. The guidelines for
award nominations are avail-
able online at www.inform.
umd .edu/PCWl/awards.html .
These guidelines delineate
what student, faculty and staff
nominees are expected to have
accomplished to be considered
for the honor. Additional rele-
vant accomplishments may
also be indicated. Nominees
needn't meet every single
accomplishment, only a pre-
ponderance of them.

The deadline for receipt of
the nomination is Wednesday,
Feb. 1 9. Presentation of Awards
will be on Thursday, March 6
from 2-4 p.m. in the Maryland
Room, Marie Mount Hall,

Send nominations to Mary
Cothran at the Office of Multi-
Ethnic Student Education in
1101 Horn bake Library. For
nomination forms and more
information, call (301) 405-
5617.

Bull and Oyster Roast

Come to the University Golf
Course for the Annual Bull and
Oyster Roast on Feb. 20. begin-
ning at 6 p.m. The menu fea-
tures traditional favorites,
including: fried and steamed
oysters, oyster stew, oysters on
the half shell, seafood imperial,
roast beef, barbecue chicken
and desserts. See the entire
menu at www.dining.umd.edu/
I ocations/golf _course/e ve nts .
html. The cost is $26.95 per
person, plus tax and gratuity.
Club members, faculty, staff
and their guests pay $21.95 per
person, plus tax and gratuity.
Reservations required.

For more information, contact
Nancy Loomis at (301) 3146631
or nloomis@dining.umd.edu.

Maintain the Momentum

Join fellow alumni, parents, stu-
dents, faculty, staff and special
guest Coach Gary Williams for
the seventh annual Terrapin
Pride Day today, Feb. 18 from
noon to 2 p.m. at the Miller
Senate Building, Conference
Center East, 1 1 Bladen St. in

Annapolis. As legislators face
some of the most difficult
budget decisions in more than
a decade, your support of the
university is more important
than ever.

Connect with newly elected
Gov. Robert Ehrlich and Lt.
Gov. Michael Steele, as well as
other state legislators to high-
light the university's accom-
plishments and ensure our for-
ward momentum. Build sup-
port for our flagship institution
by rallying in Annapolis.

A light lunch will be provid-
ed. Buses will be leaving from
Cole Field House sharply at I i
a.m. Buses will be leaving from
Annapolis starting at 2 p.m.,
returning to Cole by 3 p.m.

To reserve a seat on the bus,
please email Tara Brown at
terppride2003@yahoo.com or
call Tara at (301) 405-0789.

SAS and SPSS (BSOS
Sponsored) Courses

Learn to use a statistical analy-
sis package in a few hours.
Each course is held on campus
and costs $39. The courses are:

• SPSS Fundamentals: Learn
data manipulation and simple
statistical analysis. Feb. 18, 1 to
4 p.m.

■ SAS Statistical Analysis:
Learn to analyze and interpret
univariate and multivariate sta-
tistics. March 11,1 to 4 p.m,

■ SPSS Statistical Analysis:
Learn to analyze and interpret
univariate and multivariate sta-
tistics. March 18, 1 to 4 p.m.

For more information, contact
LearnIT Staff at (301) 405-1670
or LearnIT@oacs.umd.edu, or
visit www.LearnIT.umd.edu.