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THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FACULTY AND STAFF WEEKLY NEWSPAPER Vo I U m e ip • Number 7 • March It, 200J

Libraries Call for
Faculty, Student
Participation in
Web Survey

The Libraries will again conduct
the LibQUAL+™ survey in April.
This time there will be a total of
318 participating institutions
including all OhioLink members,
and the Association of Academic
Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL)
and universities in England. The
database being built from the sur-
veys provides a rich source for
understanding service quality in
academic libraries.

In the Spring of 2001 and 2002,
the university in conjunction with
169 academic and research
libraries participated in a research
and development project spon-
sored by the Association of
Research Libraries (ARL).The pur-
pose of the project, LibQUAL+TM,
is to define and measure library
service quality nationally across
institutions and to create useful
quality-assessment tools for local
planning.

The Libraries will survey a ran-
dom sample of 900 graduate stu-
dents, 1200 undergraduates and
900 faculty using an Internet-based
scalable Web interface and proto-
col to ask library users about their
library service expectations. An
email message will be sent to each
individual in the sample explain-
ing LibQUAL+ and asking them to
participate and to complete the
survey on the Web. The total time
for a respondent to take the sur-
vey is around 10 minutes.The ben-
efit to understanding the Libraries'
ability to deliver information to
the campus is very great.

A Goodbye and a

Beginning

When asked about Cindy
Gilbert's contributions to
the fire protection engineering
department, people seem at a loss
for words. It's not that they don't
know what to say, it's that they
don't know where to begin.

However, many words and good
wishes found shape in the form of
a rare salute at a large party in her
honor recently. Gilbert, who had to
leave the department when her
position was reduced to a part-time
one after budget cuts, had little
idea of what was to come.

"The Thursday night before the
party, I was taken to dinner by
some of the faculty. All I was told
was, don't make plans between 3
and 5 on Friday," says Gilbert, who
is now executive assistant to
Karen Thornton, assistant director
of the Hinman CEOs Entrepre-
neurship Program.

See GILBERT, page 4

Terrapins Take to the Capital

Pride Day a Chance to Show Support in Annapolis

PHOTO BY M0NETT6 AUSTIN BAILEY

James Rzepkowski (third from left), chief deputy minority whip for the Maryland House and a Maryland
alumnus, stands with {I to r) dad Walter Rzepkowski, sister Donna Coberly, nephew Rick Coberly,
Testudo and brother-in-law Scott Coberly (also a Maryland alumnus) during Terrapin Pride Day.

Valerie Brackins sat at a table look-
ing over the loud crowd eating
sandwich lunches and talking
about education, politics "and
other things." The Residential Facilities
employee was attending her first Terrapin
Pride Day, something she said she had to do.
"Because of the budget cuts."
In fact, it is why many either rode one of
six buses or drove themselves to Annapolis
last week. In a letter to the campus commu-
nity, Vice President for University Relations

Brodie Remington urged employees to make
an effort — as Maryland citizens — to show
their support for higher education.

"You are, I am sure, all too familiar with the
budget cuts that have hit the University of
Maryland and all of public higher education
in the state. State support of College Park has
been reduced by a total of $40 million. And
this is the good news!" he wrote.

"The situation could get worse, and if so,

See PRIDE DAY, page 3

Author Recounts Being "Nickel and Dimed"

Barbara Ehrenreich
told an audience
of nearly 200 that
the gulf between the
rich and poor in America
is widening and the
ranks of the middle class
are dwindling. Author of
the best-selling book
"Nickel and Dimed: On
(Not) Getting By in
America," Ehrenreich
spoke last Wednesday
night in 1412 Physics as
part of the Camille Raj-
pat memorial lecture,
named for the under-
graduate government
and politics major who
died in 1998.

In her talk, entided
"Nickeled and Dimed:
Social Justice and the
American Dream," she
spoke about her experi-
ence as part of the working
poor. At lunch with a Harp-
er's editor one day, she said
she suggested having some-

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BARBARA

EHRENREICH

Activist, author and humorist Barbara
Ehrenreich's 2001 book recounts her
experience as a low- wage worker.

one go out and do the "old
fashioned kind of journalism"
and see if they could live on
low wages. She became that

someone and her experi-
ence became a bestseller.
She said she held five dif-
ferent jobs: waitress,
motel housekeeper, maid
with a housecleaning
service, a nursing home
aide and a WalMart asso-
ciate.

"No one is an employ-
ee anymore. Everyone is
an associate or a team-
member, as if they were
going to sit down with
the board and discuss
company policy," Ehren-
reich said of these low-
paying jobs.

"I survived and I never
got fired," she declared.

But she said she failed
at living on her wages
alone. She said she aver-
aged $7 per hour and
always had difficulty pay-
ing even the lowest rent. For
example, in Key West, where

See DIMED, page 3

Connecting

Noise, Sea

Creature

Communication

University Researcher
Pushes for More Study

Loud underwater sounds
created by humans may
harm whales and other
sea creatures, but more research
is needed, according to Mary-
land biologist Arthur Popper
and his colleagues.

Popper, a professor in the
Department of Biology, sat on a
National Research Council com-
mittee that released a report last
month calling for further study
of ocean noise. The impact of
loud underwater sounds on sea
life is an intensely debated sub-
ject. Many experts say the issue
is still poorly understood.

Fish and sea mammals use
sound to communicate and
learn about their underwater
habitats where visibility is typi-
cally poor.

"If you put ah kinds of other
sounds [underwater] you not
only effect the ability of [sea
creatures] to communicate,
which is dramatic, but you also
effect the ability of the animal
to hear sounds that are biologi-
cally relevant " Popper said. "If
you go into a very noisy room
and somebody yells fire, you
may not hear it, where if it's a
quiet room, you will hear it.
That background noise. ..will
impact on your ability to teU
what's going on around you."

The controversy has centered
on low frequency active sonar -
a new technology being devel-
oped by the U.S. Navy, which
uses loud underwater sounds to
locate quiet enemy submarines.
Environmental campaigners
compare the noise generated by
the sonar system to the sound
of a 747 jet engine.

But the Navy is not the only
source of underwater sound.
Since the Industrial Revolution,
the oceans have become louder.
Ships, dredging, construction,
oil drilling and seismic surveys
are some of the other sources
of noise in the oceans, accord-
ing to the National Research
Council report.

"Supertankers are noisy
things. . .and also seismic
devices the oil industry uses,"
Popper said.

The National Resources
Defense Council, one of the
groups leading a lawsuit against
the Navy, has fought an aggres-
sive battle against the sonar.
"We have already seen the car-
nage caused by the Navy's use
of intense sonar. In March 2000,

See POPPER, page 3

MARCH II, 2003

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march 11

6-9 p.m., OIT Peer Training:
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8:45 a.m. -4 p.m., OIT Short-
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THURSDAY

march 13

4 p.m.. Graduate School
Distinguished Lecturer:
Poet John Ashbery 0200
Skinner Building. Ashbery will
present this year's first Gradu-
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20 works of poetry, including
the Pulitzer Prize-winning
"Self-Portrait in a Convex Mir-
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(1956), selected by W.H.Auden
for the Yale Younger Poet Series.
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4-6 p.m.. Wo rks-in- Progress
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march 14

Noon, Numerical Modeling
of River Terrace Formation
in Response to Oscillating
Climate 1201 Physics Build-
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4-5:30 p.m.. The Aeneid for
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SATURDAY

march 15

1-2 p.m., Lecture-Demon-
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Kogod Theatre, Clarice Smith
Performing Arts Center. One of
the first artists to bridge hip-
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will discuss his creative
process and the ideas behind
his plays and characters. His
lecture is held in conjunction
with his performances of "Jails,
Hospitals and Hip-Hop," per-
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Kogod Theatre. For more infor-
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march 16

3 p.m.. University of Mary-
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Concerto Competition
Finals Dekelboum Concert
Hall, Clarice Smith Performing
Arts Center. Final round of the
School of Music's annual com-
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with the Maryland Symphony
Orchestra. For more informa-
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march 17

8:45 a.m. -4 p.m., OIT Short-
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4 p.m.. The Bad Mother?
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Gretchen Sacra, Environmental Services

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expert on 18th-century France,
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7:30 p.m.. Annual Harp Stu-
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Diitied: Working and in Poverty

Continued from page i

she worked as a maid, she said a
small half-size trailer rented for
$625 per month, excluding utilities.

On working in Minnesota she
recalled the desperation that led to
her renting a one-room motel effi-
ciency. She said the rent was high,
sometimes as high as a motorist's
nightly rental, hut she didn't have
to provide first month's rent and a
security deposit.

" [First month's and security depo-
sit] is such a barrier to stable hous-
ing for so many people " she said.

She described in detail the
ordeal of living there: the smell of
rat droppings permeating the
room, moving to several rooms
when the sewage backed up, and
having no privacy because there
were no shades on the window.
She said she felt sorry for herself
until she realized others in the
motel were sharing rooms with
spouses and children.

"1 should also mention the rent
for this place was $250 a week,"
she said, "more than I was earning."

She said for most people these
motels were the last step to home-
lessness.

Ehrenreich said she also had
many advantages in the low-wage
workforce: having no children,
being white and doing this for a
short time.

She criticized the tests adminis-
tered to applicants for these jobs,
claiming that drug testing was a
violation of the Fourth Amend-
ment's prohibition of unreasonable
search and seizure. She also said an
American Civil Liberties Union
study found that drug testing didn't
achieve its goals of reducing absen-
teeism and increasing productivity.

"So why are they doing it?" she
asked. "It's a little ritual of humilia-
tion."

Ehrenreich said she expected
these jobs to be physically challen-
ging, but was surprised at the men-
tal challenge they presented. The
biggest one she faced was learning
and relearning the exact locations
of the constantly rotating stock in
the ladies' department atWalMart.

"The lesson for me was an
important one: I will never use the
word 'unskilled' to describe any
job "she said.

She also said these jobs were
made unnecessarily difficult by an
atmosphere of distrust and intimi-
dation festering in the work envi-
ronment. Rules prohibiting talk
among employees reminded her of
being in junior high school. And
now, from what's read since her
experience, she believes she hasn't
even seen the worst.

"There are ways in which many
American workplaces are begin-
ning to resemble what we think of
as third-world sweatshops," she
claimed.

One way she found particularly
disturbing concerned adults having
to ask to use the bathroom. She
mentioned a conversation with a
University of Iowa academic who
had studied the issue of bathroom
breaks. He told her there was an
increasing number of job situa-
tions—assembly lines, cash regis-
ters — where the lack of bathroom
breaks forced women to wear adult

diapers.

She said the most important
thing she learned from her experi-
ence was the meaninglessness of
the official poverty level. She said
making $7 per hour kept her well
above the poverty level for one
person. She criticized the determi-
nation of the poverty level, taking
the cost of the minimal amount of
food a family needs to survive and
multiplying by three, for failing to
account for housing inflation and
health care.

The people she met supported
themselves by pooling their wages,
and said she would have had to get
a roommate if she actually stayed a
low-wage worker. Still, she said,
many didn't make it. She recalled
working alongside full-time work-
ing people living in their cars who
didn't consider themselves home-
less.

Ehrenreich had harsh criticism
for President Bush's ideas for solv-
ing the poverty problem. She said
the Bush administration's latest
idea for women in poverty is to
have them many, "the idea being
that a husband will help lift them
out of poverty." Ehenreich said she
believed a woman's marital status
shouldn't be the government's con-
cern.

Eherneich said the biggest prob-
lem with Bush's plan was that poor
women, like most, tend to marry
within their own social class. She
said blue-collar men, whom these
women are most likely to many, had
experienced a significant decline in
wages over the past few decades.

"It leads one to sit down and cal-
culate, how many men does a
woman have to marry to lift herself
out of poverty?" Ehernreich said,
drawing laughter from the crowd.
"And it's getting to be a big num-
ber. It's over two now."

Ehrenreich said she believed
there was a connection between
the extreme wealth of the few and
the poor of so many. She also said
poverty did not exist in isolated
pockets, as she claimed Bush
believed.

The Economic Policy Institute in
Washington, D.C., she said, esti-
mates that 29 percent of American
families with a child under age 12
do not have enough money to
meet basic needs. She said the fed-
eral government's estimate is 12
percent.

Expanding the scope of her dis-
cussion, she included those com-
monly considered middle class —
schoolteachers, librarians and
adjunct faculty — as potentially mar-
ginalized workers.

"Those of you who are working,
have you figured out how many
months you could go without a
paycheck?" she asked.

After her speech, Ehrenreich
invited questions and activists to
stand up and speak a little on
behalf of their cause.

The lecture was part of the
semester-long seminar series "Politi-
cal Women's Writing," co-sponsored
by the Department of English,
Women's Studies, the Curriculum
Transformation Project, College
Park Humanities and University
Honors.

Popper: Sounds May Mislead Mammals

Continued from page 1

several whales and dol-
phins stranded them-
selves and died on
beaches in the Baha-
mas," wrote actor Pierce
Brosnan, a spokesman
for the NRDC, in a
recent direct mailing.

Environmental cam-
paigners have focused
on the Bahamas strand-
Ings and say that Navy
sonar tests caused the
beaked whales' inner
ears to bleed and made
them beach themselves,
but Popper cautions that
much remains unclear
about the incident.

"There was bleeding
in the brain, but not in
the ear," Popper said.
Popper said that similar
symptoms in humans would
cause a"massive headache."
Popper said it's possible that
the whales became confused
and stranded themselves
because they were in an
enclosed area of the sea sur-
rounded by islands, but there
is not enough data to be
sure.

PHOTO BY CYNTHIA MITCHEL

Arthur Popper studies the Impact of noise
on sea life.

"No one knows what hap-
pened to the mammals that
didn't beach.They may have
gone out between two
islands, had a headache for a
day or two and then were
fine afterwards," Popper said.

Popper and the other sci-
entists on the National
Research Council committee
hope that further research

will answer such ques-
tions. Their February
report "Ocean Noise and
Marine Mammals" calls
for a single government
agency to collect, organ-
ize and analyze data and
for the establishment of
an ocean noise monitor-
ing program.

Popper, who research-
es the effect of under-
water sounds on fish,
has been on three
National Research Coun-
cil committees. Though
the public debate has
centered on whales,
Popper said that fish are
important too, and he
was asked to join the
committee "as a fish
spokesperson." Popper said
fish are a more significant
part of the human food
chain and a source of food
for marine mammals. To
learn more about Popper's
research, visit www.life.umd.
edu/biology/popperlab.

— Stephen E. Mather,
journalism graduate student

Pride Days For Higher Education

Continued from page 1

the University's quaUty will
be irreparably harmed and
the impact will be felt
directly by faculty, staff and
students. The recent 'threat'
in Annapolis to eliminate
the tuition remission pro-
gram is just one example
of the further harm that
could come our way."

Part pep rally and more
parts lobbying effort,Ter-
rapin Pride Day gives sev-
eral constituencies an
opportunity to show Mary-
land legislators just how
important higher educa-
tion is to them, and how
high they feel it should be
placed on the legislative
agenda.

Last week's event, post-
poned from February
because of snow storms,
was the most successful
ever, according to Tara
Brown, with the Office of
Legislative Affairs, In terms
of numbers and of the var-
ious audiences gathered in
attendance.

"It goes to show legisla-
tors that students, faculty,
staff and alumni care about
higher education," she said.

Approximately 500 peo-
ple drove from the campus
to Annapolis for an after-
noon of short speeches,
lunch and face time with
representatives. Brack ins,
and a few fellow Denton
Community workers, did-
n't plan to meet with elect-
ed officials, but wanted to
show their support for bet-

ter funding.

"There will be no raises,
but they're going to raise
parking and health bene-
fits," said Lorenza Sanchez.
"They're going to take it
from our checks."

During the two-hour
event in the Miller Senate
Building East, participants
heard from Student Gov-
ernment Association Presi-
dent Brandon DeFrehn,
President Mote, Senate Pre-
sident Mike Miller, Men's
Basketball Coach Gary
Williams, House Speaker
Mike Bush and others. The
overriding theme was
maintaining excellence,
echoing Mote's call for
"maintaining momentum'*
from his state of the cam-
pus address given last
semester.

"The future of the state
depends on a great univer-
sity... the flagship univer-
sity has got to be the one,"
he said to a cheering crowd
dressed mostly in red, black
and gold. Speaking to how
the university rises to
excellence, Mote added
that "the whole thing has
to rise at die same time."

Williams echoed his
thoughts from a sports per-
spective. "We're a part of
the university. The acade-
mic achievement of our
school... and President
Mote have made it such an
exciting place to be. My
business degree is looking
a lot better," he said.

It was academics that
brought Natasha Clermont
to Maryland, and to Anna-
polis. She works as a re-
search coordinator for the
National Foreign Language
Center and has an applica-
tion in at the Graduate
School to study education-
al policy and leadership.

"I followed the rankings.
There are so many great
programs here. It's much
more organized," she said,
than her previous graduate
program at Temple Univer-
sity. She came intending to
pay her way through
school and then realized
that employees receive
tut ion remission. However,
Clermont was concerned
to hear the benefit being
threatened.

James Rzepkowski, chief
deputy minority whip for
the Maryland House and a
Maryland alumnus, also
expressed concern about
funding cuts. The eighth of
eight children, he thanked
his dad for paying for his
schooling, but remembers
he and his fraternity broth-
ers collecting change from
Route 1 drivers to raise
money to keep Hornbake
Library's 24 hour study
room open in 1 992 after
severe budget cuts.

"There Is no partisanship
when it comes to love for
the university," he said. "And
we cannot allow what hap-
pened in '92 to happen
again."

MARCH II, 2003

Terps on Stage for Terps
in Need

The University is hosting a tal-
ent show to raise funds for the
Faculty and Staff Assistance Pro-
gram (FSAP) Emergency Loan
Fund. On Wednesday, March 12
from 5-5 p.m. in the Dekelboum
Concert Hall, Clarice Smith Per-
forming Arts Center, faculty and
staff members will dazzle the
campus community with their
heretofore hidden talents.

Who knew there was a senior
administrator on campus who
plays banjo? How about the jazz
singing member of the
provost's staff? What about the
virtuoso pianist who's an associ-
ate dean? Can you afford to
miss the singing group of Elvis
impersonators? What about the
dancers, drummers and other
talented performers who will
show their stuff during this
afternoon of entertainment?

The Emergency Loan pro-
gram has helped many staff and
faculty members in times of
need. More than $200,000 has
been allocated for helping peo-
ple address housing and health
care needs and to help pay for
utilities, child care and funeral
expenses.

Tickets for the event are $3
and can be purchased from the
Clarice Smith Performing Arts
Center box office. You can also
make tax-deductible donations
to this fund. For more informa-
tion, contact Marsha Guenzler-
Stevens at mguenzle® union.
umd.edu.

Laboratory Safety

The Department of Environ-
mental Safety (DES) hosts a lab-
oratory safety orientation train-
ing session every month. This
training is offered to assure reg-
ulatory compliance. The next
scheduled training session will
be held on Wednesday, March
19 from 9:30 to 11 a.m. in 3104
Chesapeake Building. Space is
limited.

For more information and to
reserve a place, contact Jeanette
Cartron at (301) 405-2131 or
jcartron@accmail . umd .edu ,

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Dissertations in Progress

Join the Center for Renaissance
& Baroque Studies (CRBS) on
March 1 3 from 4 to 6 p.m. in
the Maryland Room, Marie
Mount Hall, for its next Works-
in-Progress presentation. The
monthly series offers a forum
for campus scholars to share
their most current research on
the early modern period.

Abstracts for the papers are
available at CRBS, 01 39 Taliafer-
ro; the Department of English,
3101 Susquehanna; and Art His-
tory and Archeology. Partici-
pants should obtain and read
papers in advance of presenta-
tions to prepare for discussion.

The presenters will be:

• Brandi Adams, Department
of English: "Entering into the

Study of Renaissance English
Drama"

• Bryan Herek, Department
of English: "Early Modern Satire
and the Bishops' Order of 1 599:
Manuscript, Print and Stage"

• Helen Hull, Department of
English: "An Officer and a Gen-
tlewoman: Representing the
Monarch in If You Know Not
Me,You Know Nobody."

For more information, visit
www.inform.umd.edu/crbs.

2003 Spring Career Fair

The Career Center will hold its
Sprng Career Fair on Tuesday
and Wednesday, March 18 and
19 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the
Stamp Student Union.

Open to graduate and under-
graduate students of all majors
and to Maryland alumni, the fair
provides a forum to discuss full-
time, part-time, internship and
summer job opportunities, and
is an ideal place for job seekers
to network.

For more information, con-
tact Christopher Irwin at (301)
314-7225 or cirwin@ds9.umd.
edu, or visit www.careercenter.
umd.edu.

Where'd the Lawn Go?

PHOTO BY TOM VENTSIAS

Imagine our furry friends' surprise last month
when the campus, their favorite foraging ground,
disappeared under unprecedentedly high mounds
of fluffy frozen white.

Most readers will be able to answer the what and
the when in the above Mystery Photo, but anyone
who might be able to .discern where it was taken will
really impress Oudook staffers and fellow readers. Send
your educated guesses to oudook@accmail.umd.edu,
or by campus mail to Oudook, 2101 Turner Hall, by 5
p.m. on Thursday, March 13. A winner will be selected
at random 60m among the correct answers and will be
announced in the March 18 issue of Oudook,

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PHOTO BY OftnnYL NEMETK

Fire trucks from Berwyn Heights Station T A and College Park Station 12
raised their ladders in salute to Cindy Gilbert in front of the University
GoH Course clubhouse.

Gilbert: Receives an Outpouring of Love

Continued from page 1

Students and alumni from
the department not only gath-
ered dozens of friends for a
party at the University Golf
Club clubhouse, but arranged
for two fire trucks, from
Berwyn Heights Station 14 and
College Park Station 12, to
raise their ladders and display
a sign saying," We love you,
Cindy," outside the clubhouse's
front doors. Gilbert says this is
a rare and high salute in the
firefighting community.

"I know that they don't do
that for anybody," she says,
adding that the last time she
saw it was when she attended
the funeral of her boyfriend's
father in 1995.

Gilbert says there aren't
words great enough to express
what she felt then and will
always feel for the department,
especially the students. Chair
Marino DiMarzo found quite a
few words about Gilbert,
though.

"She's fantastic. She's not
good, she's extremely good
with students and alumni,
especially alumni, which was
her hallmark," he says. Though
Gilbert's main duties were
administrative, she made it her
job to help students get into
the program, find summer
work, land employment after
graduation and many other
things. DiMarzo said it isn't
unusual to run into an alumnus
in the profession who men-
tions Gilbert as an important
piece of their time at Maryland.

"When people found out she
was leaving, 1 got quite a num-
ber of e-mails from all over the
country," says DiMarzo, "from
alums who were here 10 years

ago who are now in the Navy,
presidents of companies. . . "

Erica Kuligowski, a graduate
student who now works at the
National Institute of Standards
and Technology studying the
movement of people in build-
ings during evacuations, said
when Gilbert first mentioned
her departure to a few students
and alums about one month
ago, word spread quickly.

"She's amazing, so person-
able and supportive of us no
matter what we do. When new
people come in, they see her
smiling face. It was such a
warm impression "says Kulig-
owski. "And she never forgets a
name and a face."

Gilbert, who has been on the
campus since the late 1980s,
credits the students for her 1 2
years with fire protection engi-
neering (FPE), saying that they
take just as good care of her as
she does of them. She values
the trust dtey showed by con-
fiding in her and asking for

assistance. It is the small, famil-
iar atmosphere of FPE that first
lured her from the engineering
dean's office.

"It was fun to do what I did
and to see how they were
affected by my presence there.
Dealing with the students was
the favorite part of my job,"
says Gilbert. "They put the fun
and variety in my day."

DiMarzo says it's unfortunate
that he lost such a valuable
part of his small department. In
fact, Gilbert was the only FPE
staff person. "There was no rea-
son for her to go anywhere,
but that is one of the effects of
this budget problem."

Gilbert says she looks for-
ward to making alumni con-
nections for the Hinman pro-
gram like she did for FPE. Her
new colleagues tease her that
they won't be able to top her
FPE send-off.

"They were 12 very reward-
ing, happy years, but I am
happy here."