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THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FACULTY AND STAFF WEEKLY NEWSPAPER Volume 20 ' Number 4 • December 16, 2003

Seeking to
Recognize Staff
Excellence

The Council of University
System Staff (CUSS) is
accepting nominations
for the Board of Regents' Uni-
versity System of Maryland Staff
Awards. The Staff Awards repre-
sent the highest honor best-
owed by the Board of Regents
for achievements of Exempt
and Non-Exempt employees
from institutions of the Univer-
sity System of Maryland, and are
presented to staff members
who have demonstrated excel-
lence in one of the following
categories: (1) contribution to
the institution and/or unit to
which the person belongs; (2)
service to students in an aca-
demic or residential environ-
ment; or (3) public service,
within or outside the university.

There are two awards given
in each of the above cate-
gories — one exempt and one
non-exempt — for a total of six
awards. Award recipients
receive a $ 1 ,000 stipend funded
equally by the Board of Regents
and the University of Maryland.
Full instructions, awards
process overview, and sample
forms for the Regents Staff
Awards are available at www.
senate . umd . edu/CampusCrier.
Please read the instructions
carefully— particularly the
"Nomination Cover Sheet" — to
ensure that your nomination
package contains the required
information. Nominations will
first be considered at an institu-
tional level, so please submit six
copies of the nomination pack-
ets to the following address by
4 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 8, 2004
to:

Willie Brown, Chair
Staff Affairs Committee,
University Senate
2110 Patuxent Building
Campus - 491 1

The Senate Staff Affairs Com-
mittee will select nominees
from the University of Mary-
land, College Park. Nominees
will then be forwarded to the
CUSS Awards Review Commit-
tee for final selection.

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plishments and pro-
grams.

Center Recognizes Political Pioneer

ouse Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.-8) received the 2003 Millard
E.Tydings Award for Courage and Leadership in American Politics granted
by the university's Center for American Politics and Citizenship. The award

was presented last week at
a town meeting in the
university's Memorial
Chapel.

"With political leader-
sliip and courage, Rep,
Pelosi has broken through
barriers to become the
first woman to lead her
party in Congress," says
Paul Herrnson, director of
the Center for American
Politics and Citizenship.
The award namesake,
the late U.S. Senator
Millard E.Tydings, repre-
sented Maryland in the
U.S. Senate from 1927 to
1951. He stood up to Sen.
Joseph McCarthy when
McCarthy wrongly
accused state separtment
employees of being com-
munists. Pelosi s father,
Thomas D'Alessandro, a
congressman and mayor of
Baltimore, advised and
supported Tydings.

After the ceremony,
Pelosi conducted a town
meeting with students and
photo bv mike morgan the community.

Water Helps Create Family Portraits

Photographer Uses Peaceful Medium

On a breezy Novem-
ber morning, pho-
tographer/artist Bar-
bara Tyroler steps into a
swimming pool surrounded

Her subjects, groups of
two family members, pose
and enjoy the blue-green
water as Tyroler — with her
toes wrapped around the

PHOTO BY SUSAN ROY GOLDMAN

Student Susan Roy Goldman took this photo of her 6-year-old
daughter Laura.

by several eager students.

She sets up the water
scene with large acrylic mir-
rors to reflect underwater

images.

pool's edge— looks through
the viewfinder, adjusts the
focus ring and captures the
moment.
In a matter of seconds,

Tyroler, a university adjunct
professor of art, has created a
work of art through a medi-
um she likes to call "under-
water photography."

"Water is the place where I
can get centered, where I'm
clear-headed and content,"
says Tyroler, 52, who has cre-
ated water-focused photo-
graphs for more than 20
years. "It's about floating,
peacefulness, letting yourself
go.

"Underwater is very disori-
enting, and it's really fun," she
says.

Tyroler enjoys sharing the
underwater photography
experience with her students
and with the community. She
conducted a workshop for
intergenerational pairs of rel-
atives on last month, near the
end of her 30-photo exhibi-
tion called "Reconstructing
Intimacy: Water Occupation
and Enhanced Memory in
Familial Portraiture," based at
Greenbelt Community Cen-
ter's art gallery.

See UNDERWATER, page 7

Sharing
the Blues

Growing up in Chicago, Barry
Lee Pearson heard blues
played on the radio and found the
music exciting. His interest took
him all over the city, hunting down
records, sneaking into clubs and
eventually performing with some
of the country's best know musi-
cians.

As the Senate-declared Year of
the Blues 2003 comes to a close,
Pearson, a professor of English,
wishes more people - especially
young people - embraced what he
says is the foundation of most of
today's popular music. It comes
from the every day experiences of
men and women, he says, and it's
not necessarily sad.

"Blues artists don't like it when
people say it's sad music. It's about
common problems and when you

PHOTO BY MON6TTE AUSTIN BAILEY

Barry Lee Pearson

get together to talk about them, it
makes you feel better. Blues is the
truth, that's what the blues artists
say."

Selecting 2003 as the 100th
birthday of he blues, says Pearson,
wasn't random. According to the
observance's organizers, Seattle-
based Experience Music Project
and the Memphis-based Blues
Foundation, composer W.C. Handy
heard "the weirdest music I ever
heard" on a train platform in Mis-
sissippi in 1903- Handy is called
the father of the blues. Singer Ma
Rainey, called the mother of the
blues, is said to have first heard the
music in 1 902 - thus the centenni-
al.

"It is the most influential song
form of the 20th century," says
Pearson. "It's the heart and soul of
jazz, the backbone of rock 'n
roll... You could argue that hip-hop
is today's blues."

Pearson has written about, lec-
tured on and taught classes
focused on the blues for more than
two decades. In the early '80s, he

See BLUES, page 4

DECEMBER I 6 , 2 O O 3

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maryland

YOUR GUIDE TO UNIVERSITY EVENTS : DECEMBER 16-JANUARY 15

december 16

All day. Faculty/staff Ter-
rapin Team Shop Sale Com-
cast Center. On Tuesday and
Wednesday, Dec. 16 and 17,
stop by the shop and enjoy a
25 percent discount on all reg-
ularly priced merchandise -
including just arrived Gator
Bowl items. Just show your fac-
ulty/staff ID to be eligible. As
always, all purchases support
Maryland Athletics. For more
information, call the shop at 4-
9656, or send email to
henny2298@hotmail.com, or
go to www.umterps.com.

5 p.m.. The Big Lebowski

Hoff Theatre. Film is free and
will be shown through Dec.
18. For more information, call
4-HOFF, or go to www. union.
umd . edu/hoff/schedule . h tml .

7:30 p.m.. The Princess
Bride Hoff Theatre. Film is free
and will be shown through
Dec. 18. For more information,
call 4-HOFF, or go to www.
union . umd . edu/hoff/schedule .
html.

TKU RSDAV

december 18

4-5:30 p.m.. Institute for
Systems Research Distin-
guished Lecturer Series

1 202 Engineering. Free. Leon
O. Chua of the University of
California, Berkeley, will pres-
ent a talk entitfed "New Per-
spective on Wolfram's New
Kind of Science.' " There will
also be a roundtable discussion
at 1 1 a.m. the same day in 2168
AV Williams Building. For more
information, contact Peggy
Johnson at 5-661 5 or pjohnson
@isr. umd.edu, or visit
www.isr.umd.edu/ISR/HEhtm.

SATURDAY

december 20

1 p.m.. Women's Basketball
vs. UMBC Comcast Center.
For more information, go to
http ://umterps. ocsn .com/
sports/w-b askbl/md-w-baskbl-
body, html.

7 p.m.. Winter Commence-
ment Comcast Center. Fea-
tured speaker Sergey Brin '93,
co-founder and president of
technology for Google. Gradu-
ates, led by student marshals,

will process into Comcast and
will be followed by the faculty
in full regalia. If you wish to be
part of the processional, please
assemble in academic regalia
in room 0738 of Comcast by
6:30 p.m.

december 21

6:30 p.m., Maryland Boy
Chair Dekelboum Concert
Hall. The treble voices and
alumni singers of the Maryland
Boy Choir present carols and
songs of the season from Eng-
land, Germany,Austria, France,
Wales and the United States.
The audience is invited to join
in a Christmas carol sing-along.
Tickets are S 1 5, $7 for students
and seniors. Call 5-ARTS
(2787).

THURSDAY

January 1

12:30 p.m., Maryland Foot-
ball vs. West Virginia Uni-
versity Maryland football is
returning to a New Year's Day
Bowl for the third year in a
row, playing in the Toyota
Gator Bowl Alltel Stadium in
Jacksonville, Fla. For tickets.
call 4-7070 or check www.
umterps.com and print out
this PDF: "Toyota Gator Bowl
Ticket Application ."Tickets are
$60, less than 4,000 remain.
The game will be televised on
NBC.

THURSDAY

January 8

8 a.m. -5 p.m., Hawaii Inter-
national Conference on
Arts and Humanities Renais-
sance Uikai Waikiki Hotel. Tick-
ets are available by mail, or fax
in your registration form. The
Hawaii International Confer-
ence on Arts and Humanities
will be held from Jan. 8 (Thurs-
day) to Jan. 1 1 (Sunday) at the
Renaissance Ilikai Waikiki
Hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii. For
more information, contact
Andrew Burge at (808) 949-
1456 or human! ties@hichu-
manittcs.org, or visit
http://hichumanities.org.

7-8:45 p.m.. Physics is
Phun: The Atom 1412
Physics. Atomic structure,
atomic spectra and applica-
tions. Hands-on experiments at
7 p.m.; formal lecture from

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March 2

March 9

March 16 print and online

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April 13 print and online

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May 11 print and online

7:30-8:45 p.m. Program will be
repeated on Friday and Satur-
day evenings at the same time
and place. For more informa-
tion, contact Richard Berg at 5-
5994 or reberg@physics.umd.
edu or visit http://www.
physics.umd.edu/lecdem/
outreach/phph/phph.htm.

January 12

1-4 p.m., VUebCT Quick
Start for Large Classes (OIT)
4404 Computer & Space Sci-
ence. This workshop prepares
faculty to use WebCT tools and
strategies that are useful in the
management of large classes.
Register at www.oit.umd.edu/
lit/register. html. For more
information, contact Deborah
Mateik at 5-2945 or oit-train-
ing@umd.edu, or visit www.
o it . urn d .edu/iit/current . html .

January 13

9 a.m.-l p.m.. Laboratory
Safety Seminar room 2117
CSIC. Learn where to get the
resources you need to work
safely and to comply with

New OHRP Newsletter

The Office of Human Relations Programs (OHRP) has
initiated a bi-annual e-newsletter as a way of keeping
the campus community abreast of the progress of its
work to further the university's commitment to equity and
diversity. Access the newsletter on the OHRP Web site at
www. umd . edu/OHRP.

More specifically, the purpose of the e-newsletter is to:
(1) promote continued attention to equity and diversity
work university-wide; (2) to garner informed feedback on
that work; and (3) to create another forum from which new
equity- and diversity-focused collaborations and partner-
ships can emerge.

OHRP would like to hear the campus community's
thoughts about this new equity and diversity information
dissemination initiative. Contact Christine Clark at 5-2841,
or cclarkl@umd.edu, or go to www. umd. edu/OHRP

OSHA & EPA regulations, as
well as university policies. Top-
ics include: emergency proce-
dures, fire safety, reporting and
handling incidents, laboratory
and chemical safety, chemical
hygien plan, personal protec-
tive equipment, environmnetal
issues and waste management
in laboratories, and laboratory
management and design. Cetifi-
cate issued upon completion.
For more information, contact
Elise Franklin at 5-3965, or
efrankli@umd.edu, or go to
www. umd . ed u/des .

9 a.m. -noon.. Build a
Course Web Page (with
Dreamweaver MX) 4404
Computer Space & Science.
Participants will create a Web
page from a course syllabus
and plan a more complete Web
site to support the goals and
activities of a course. Faculty
and those teaching credited
courses will have first priority
seating; registration is required
at www.oit. umd.eduAiit/regis-
ter.html. For more information,
contact Deborah Mateik at 5-
2945 or oit-training@umd.edu,
or visit www.oit.umd.edu/iit/
current.html.

1-2:30 p.m.. Getting Start-
ed with WebCT (OIT) 4404

Computer Space & Science.
Free. This hands-on, interactive
workshop will get you started
using WebCT for your course.
The workshop will also be
offered Jan. 20 from 9-10:30
a.m. Registration for either sec-
tion is required at www.oit.
umd.edu/iit/register.html. For
more information, contact
Deborah Mateik at 5-2945 or
oit-training@umd.edu, or visit
www. oit . umd .edu/ii t/c urrent.
html.

THURSDAY

January 15

8:45 a.m. -noon. Resources
and Opportunities of Prince
George's County Off-cam-
pus. Free. The Democracy Col-
laborative and the Office of
Community Service-Learning
invite campus and community
members to learn more about

the resources EG. County. For
more information, contact
Cheri Love at 4-5387 or
clove 1 Oumd.edu.

9:30 a.m. -3 p.m.. Quick
Start to MS PowerPoint for
Faculty (OIT) 4404 Computer
& Space Science. Free to uni-
versity faculty or those teach-
ing credited courses. Learn to
use MS PowerPoint to develop
professional presentations for
the classroom or conference
room. Registration is required
at www.oit.umd.edu/iit/regis-
ter.html. For more information,
contact Deborah Mateik at 5-
2945 or oit-training@umd.edu
or visit www.oit.umd.edu/iit/
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OUTLOOK

With Hope in Their Hearts

NEWS FROM THE CLARICE SMITH

PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

For the greater Goode. . .

'hey may be
diminuitive, but
their stage pres-
ence is anything
but. The Children of Uganda —
20 in all, ranging from age 6 to
1 7— brought a cheering, stomp-
ing and whistling crowd of
1 ,300 Bostonians to their feet
at a 2002 performance.

The New York Times has
hailed them as "first-rate" and
"inspiring." With pulsing per-
cussion, lyric flutes and songs
of joy and hope, their exhilarat-
ing performances around the
world have thrilled audiences
with their infectious joy for life.
And that enthusiasm for life is
even more amazing given the
circumstances from which
they've come. Each child has
lost one or both parents to
HIV/ AIDS and lives in one of
several Ugandan orphanages
supported by the Uganda Chil-
dren's Charity Foundation.
"These children have seen suf-
fering in its true sense yet their
backgrounds do not inhibit
them from dancing with joy,"
said Children of Uganda Direc-
tor Frank Katoola. u They sing
and dance with hope in their
hearts, which is reflected in
their bodies *

The Children of Uganda have
been sharing that hope since
1994, when they began touring
every two years to promote
global awareness of the
HIV/AIDS crisis and to raise
funds for fellow orphans In
their homeland. AIDS is a lead-
ing cause of death in Uganda,
killing more than 300 people a
day, and one million children
under the age of 15 have lost
one or both parents to it.
Emmy Anguyo, 17, a veteran

member of the troupe who has
lived the statistics and lost both
parents to AIDS, notes his rea-
son for participating, "I want to
tell America that no matter
what happens to you in life,

tuosic talents and provide
insight into the rituals through
which young men and women
used to select their partners.

The Children of Uganda will
perform Friday, Jan. 30 at 8

there is always hope."

The children's program of
traditional East African music
and dance reflects their history,
culture, legends and beliefs.
Some of the dances they per-
form are historical, like the
"Bakisimba" that is passed on
from one generation to another
and celebrates the creation of
banana wine for the King of
B Uganda, the central tribe of
Uganda. Others like the "Orun-
yege," a courtship dance among
the Banyoro-Batooro people of
Western Uganda, showcase vir-

p.m. and Saturday, Jan. 31 at 1 1
a.m. in the center's Kay Theatre.
There will be question-and-
answer sessions following both
performances. The Saturday
morning show is a 50-minute
performance with no intermis-
sion; tickets are $15- The Friday
night performance is 1 1/2
hours with one intermission;
tickets are $30. Student tickets
for both performances are $5.
To order, call (301) 405-ARTS
(2787), and for more informa-
tion, visit www.claricesmi th-
ee nter.umd.edu.

ore than a dance
company, the Joe
Goode Perfor-
mance Group is known for
its "smart theatre," which
artfully weaves dance with"
music, costumes, sets, light-
ing and narrative.

"As a dancer, I never
understood why I should
be mute," Goode has said.
"Some think that the form
should be pure in that
way. I will draw on any
resources to make my
point — music, design, lan-
guage." And the critics
have taken note of the
"fresh, touching and
wickedly funny" results
(The New York Times).
The Times also notes: "The
absolute polish with
which Goode integrates
speech and movement
should stand as a model
for many others in the
dance and performance art
field."

In his work "Mythic,
Montana," Goode takes a
fresh look at Greek myths,
plunking them down in a
locale far from Mount
Olympus — the contempo-
rary American West. Evok-
ing the stories of Psyche,
Narcissus and Sisyphus,
among others, the charac-
ters embark on Homeric
quests for self-knowledge
and fulfillment, but are
often thwarted by factors
beyond their control.
Goode portrays a 21st cen-
tury Sisyphus, who instead
of eternally rolling a giant
boulder up a hill only to
have it roll back down
again, wields a broom —

Cinematic Sounds of Terence Blanchard

Trumpeter Terence Blanchard has
scored more than 25 films, some in
collaboration with director Spike
Lee. such as ''Mo' Better Blues," "Jungle
Fever," "Malcolm X," "Do the Right
Thing" and "25th Hour," for which he
received a Golden Globe nomination for
best original score,

In a series of events this February
sponsored by the Clarice Smith Perform-
ing Arts Center, this heralded composer
and performer will be on campus, per-
forming, teaching and discussing his fife
and career.

In addition to his impressive sound-
track work. New Orleans-based Blanchard
has established a reputation as an excit-
ing and engaging performer. He has
received four Grammy Award nomina-
tions, recorded nearly two dozen albums
and performed with esteemed artists
including Branford Marsalis, Diana Krall,

Jane Monheit. Dianne Reeves and Cas-
sandra Wilson. He won Down Beat mag-
azine's Jazz Artist of the Year and Album
of the Year awards in 2001 . The late Mites
Davis named him one of !he most prom-
ising trumpet players of his generation,
and Blanchard replaced Wynton Marsalis
in legendary drummer Art Blakey's Jazz
Messengers. Like Blakey, Blanchard nur-
tures the talent of young, gifted players;
his sextet is comprised of talented twen-
lysomethings. He also serves as artistic
director of theThelonious Monk Institute
of Jazz Performance at the University of
Southern California.

Blanchard and his sextet will be in con-
cert in the center's Kay Theatre on Sunday,
Feb. 8 at 7:30 p.m. Following the perform-
ance, a & A session will be moderated
by Willard Jenkins from WPFW and
National Public Radio. In addition to this
performance, Blanchard will participate in

numerous free events sponsored by the
Smith Center, including the Sunday, Feb,
6 event "The Jazz Aesthetic in film:
Movie Music of Terence Blanchard," held
in the Nyurnburu Cultural Center's Multi-
purpose Room. A discussion with pan-
elists from the university will be held at 7
p.m., followed by a screening of a Blan-
chard-scored film at 8 p.m.

On Monday. Feb. 9 at 10 a.m. in the
Kay Theatre, Blanchard will participate in
a Q & A session open to the community
regarding film scoring, jazz and his life,
moderated by Clyde Woods, assistant
professor, Afro-American Studies. Blan-
chard also will lead a master class for the
School of Music's Jazz at 5:30 p.m. in the
Orchestra/Jazz Rehearsal Room 1230.

Tickets to the Feb. 8 concert are S30, $5
for students. To order, or for more infor-
mation on all the events featuring Blan-
chard, call (3011 405-ARTS (27871.

condemned to sweep up
the mess of our modern
lives. As each story is pre-
sented, more and more
refuse gathers onstage.

With the production of
"Mythic, Montana," Goode
also acknowledges his debt
to classical theatre, adding a
Greek chorus of eight Mary-
land student performers to
his company of seven
dancer/acto r/singers.

Employed to comment,
amplify and reflect upon
events in "Mythic, Montana"
as they occur, the chorus
was cast by Goode at an
October audition at the
Department of Dance.

Faculty member Mcriam
Rosen looks forward to his
work with the student per-
formers.

"He has this way of get-
ting people to do what they
never thought they could
do. He just opens them up."
Graduate student Ruben
Graciani agrees, admitting
that as a dancer, he never
thought hed have a singing
audition. He finds Goode 's
melding of genres challeng-
ing. "This is the first time
I've been challenged to
assume a distinct character
while moving, rather than
just letting the movement
speak for the character"

"Mythic, Montana" will be
performed in a program
funded in part by the
National Dance Project of
the New England Founda-
tion for the Arts on Friday
and Saturday, Feb. 6 and 7 at
8 p.m. In the center's Kay
Theatre. The program also
includes the work "Folk"
which was spawned from
"Mythic," but focuses not on
the deities but rather ordi-
nary people whose daily
lives are anything but sim-
ple. This performance may
contain nudity and strong
language.

Tickets are $30, $5 for
students.To order, call (301)
405-ARTS (2787) and for
more information, visit
www.claricesmithcenter.
umd.edu.

For ticket information or to
request a season brochure,
contact the Ticket Office at
301. 405. ARTS or visit www.
Clarice smithcenter. umd . e du.

Clarice Smith
Performing Arts

Onterat maryiand

DECEMBER I 6 , 2003

Support Women Terps
Basketball

Dear Maryland Faculty and Staff,

My coaching staff and I would like to take this Oppor-
tunity to personally thank you for your dedication to
academics and encouraging our student-athletes to
excel in the classroom. You have seen our players excel
in the classroom; ifs now time for you to see them
excel on the court.

Maryland Women's Basketball is proud to be part of
the University of Maryland campus family and we hope
that you will join us this year in the Comcast Center as
my coaching staff and I embark on our second year at
the helm of this program. We worked tirelessly to bring
some of the best talent to College Park in order to com-
pete for ACC and national championships. Now is the
time to be part of what we're building.

It Is a pleasure for the women's basketball program
to provide four complimentary tickets per employee to
the following home games: Friday, Jan. 2 vs. NC State
at 7 p.m.; Monday, Jan. 19 vs. North Carolina at 7 p.m.;
Sunday, Feb. 22 vs. Duke at 4 p.m.

Secure your tickets by coming to the Comcast Center
Ticket Office between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday
through Friday. If you have any questions, please call
the Terrapin Ticket office at (301) 314-7070.

I hope to see you, your friends and family at the
Comcast Center -soon. Go Terps!

Yours truly.

Brenda Frese

Head Women's Basketball Coach

Blues: Telling the Truth

Continued from page 1

performed with John Cephas
and Phil Wiggins as part of
the Bowling Green Blues
Trio.The three toured Africa,
South and Central America
for a State Department cul-
tural program. He came to
Maryland as a folk song spe-
cialist and taught a blues
class in 1978. He collaborat-
ed with J. Otis Williams on
several on- and offcampus
projects designed to bring
the blues to different audi-
ences.

He says that though blues
has its detractors, major cul-
tural critics such as Zora
Neal Hurston and Langston
Hughes "recognized it as sig-
nificant. . .part of a valuable
cultural heritage."

Sharing that heritage is
part of Pearson's personal
mission. He is president of
the board of the National
Council for the Traditional
Arts, which hosts the Nation-
al Folk Festival and other tra-
ditional arts music tours. He
is lead scholar and program-
mer for the Bluebird Blues
Festival hosted at Prince
George's Community College
every fall, which drew
13,000 people this year. He
recently co-authored "Robert
Johnson: Lost and Found"
with Bill McCulloch; the
book explores the life and

music of the blues guitarist
whose mysterious death at
age 27 adds to his legendary
status.

"Some paint him as this
demented genius who made
a deal with the devil, but it's
not the real person and gift-
ed artist we discovered ," says
Pearson.

Though he does want
blues to reach more people,
Pearson is not fond of com-
mercial oudets cashing in on
the music without a respect
for it. He mentions the popu-
lar House of Blues chain of
clubs as an example." I don't
know what purpose they
serve," be says. "They do give
some acts better places to
perform, but then those acts
are not going to smaller, tra-
ditional places."

Such enterprises, he says,
participate in an "appropria-
tion of the blues as a com-
mercial commodity removed
from its community base."
He makes a distinction
between such ventures, and,
for example, B.B. King's
string of restaurants because
King worked long and hard
in the blues community. "He
earned them," says Pearson.

For a list of remaining Year
of the Blues activities and
events, go to www.yearoft.he-
blues.org.

Criminology Class Plays with Miniature Murder

PHOTOS BY OESAIR SHOWN

Above, professor Thomas Mauri ell o reviews exam material with his Introduction to Criminalistics class. Below, crimi-
nal justice major and senior Branca Lettieri, a team leader, points to telltale dues within this diorama of a hotel room.

At the end of each semes-
ter criminology lecturer
Thomas Mauriello
encourages his students to play
with dollhouse rooms where
they can examine any of the
miniature objects in the rooms,
including the "dead" dolls.

"Feel free to move the pieces
around," he says, in a thick Massa-
chusetts accent, to 20 students
huddled in teams around six
swiveling dollhouse rooms
encased in glass.

Each team gets a scenario and
a list of evidence. The team
leader gets a list of all the possi-
ble questions the team could ask
about the scenario, and while
the other students pose as detec-
tives radioed to the crime scene,
the team leader poses as anyone
or anything related to the crime.

"The leader is a resource per-
son; they are anything the group
wants them to be," said Mauriel-
lo. "This is the seventh of seven
exercises where the students
have the opportunity to take
what they've learned in the
semester and apply it in a practi-
cal situation."

A bloodied lamp in a living
room, half -eaten toast in a
kitchen, and a feces-covered
nightgown in a garage are some
clues students must use to deter-
mine the manner in which each
doll died. Students are prepped
all semester-long with lectures
and labs. After studying the
crime scenes for 40 minutes,
they present the scene to the
rest of the class using slides of
the rooms.

"One semester I was going to
cut out the dollhouses and the
students went nuts," Mauriello
said."Before 1 started using these
exercises, I was teaching differ-
ent aspects of forensic science. . .
The students knew the facts, but
didn't integrate them.That's the
difference."

Mauriello's teaching assistant,
Patrick Reidy said this last lab is
one of the reasons students
decide to take Introduction to

Criminalistics.

"The students look forward to
the opportunity to use what
they have learned in a practical
setting, and they all seem to real-
ly enjoy the experience " the sen-
ior and criminal justice major
said. "Myself, I benefit from the
experience of working with Pro-
fessor Mauriello. He is a wonder-
ful mentor, an excellent source
of advice, and a pleasure to work
with."

Mauriello started designing
the dollhouse rooms twelve
years ago, after noticing a similar
set in the state's medical examin-
er's office.

Costing around $300 each, the
dollhouse rooms took several
hands and six months to make.
After they were built, Mauriello
and two students spent hours
drumming up dioramas ranging
from sodomy to suicide. Then
the dollhouses were redesigned
to fit the crimes. Next Mauriello
relied on graphic artists, includ-
ing his wife, a decorative artist,
to help add furniture and evt
dence like blood splatters and
biological fluids to the scenes.
Today, the dollhouse murders are
featured in the forensic expert's
newest book "Dollhouse Mur-
ders," in which he collaborated
with science writer Ann Darby
to describe the crimes using fic-
tional story lines.

Before the dioramas, Mauriello
used to use an unoccupied

house on Knox Road as a life-
size crime scene. Students could
walk through the house search-
ing for evidence and clues.

"That's when I only had 25
students and not 100 "he said. "In
forensic science and investiga-
tion each thing builds on anoth-
er, the student has to walk away
knowing that each thing is
dependent on another, . . This
exercise allows them to do that."
Criminal justice major Keneitliia
Taylor, who is graduating in May,
was a part of the team that ana-
lyzed the garage diorama. "It was
pretty easy," she said. "You just
have to think about it. [Professor
Mauriello] always tell us to look
at the big picture then look at
the details. It was a good experi-
ence, and the best way to learn."

Mauriello, who has a bache-
lor's degree in criminal justice
and a master's degree in forensic
science from George Washington
University, said he has witnessed
80 to 90 autopsies, including the
accidental death of the woman
in her garage, which is the only
fact-based diorama used in the
lab.

"I was shocked to know that
an autopsy could determine
whether the woman in the
garage scene was unconscious or
not at the time of her death," he
said. "There's a lot I don't know
and I haven't seen it all. Every
time 1 go to an autopsy I learn
something new."

OUTLOOK

Winter Operating
Hours and
Schedule Changes

s the campus winds down Fall 2003
and prepares to host Wintermester
2004, hours will change for several

Shuttle-UM Winter Schedule

All routes will be running on their nor-
mal schedules Monday through Friday for
Finals Week, Dec. 15 through Dec. 20. Sun-
day, Dec. 14 will have regular Sunday serv-
ice. On Dec. 13 and 20, buses will run on a
limited, Friday commuter schedule. There
will not be Springhill Lake 2 and Greenbelt
2 service. The College Park route will run 20
minute loops starting at 6:40 a.m. each day.

Other changes are as follows:

Monday, Dec. 22 and Tuesday, Dec. 23
Laurel Park & Ride, College Park Metro
all day on 20 minute loops, and Campus
Connector North and South on an alternat-
ing 20 minute loop.

Wednesday, Dec. 24

Service will end at approximately 1 ;30
p.m. Laurel Park & Ride will leave the
Stamp Student Union at 11:15 a.m., 11:45
a.m., 12:15 p.m. and 12:45 p.m.

No service will be running on the days
the university is closed, Dec. 24 at approxi-
mately 1 :30 p.m. through Jan. 4.

The following services will resume on
Jan. 5 and continue through Jan. 23;

College Park beginning at 6:30 a.m. And
running through 8 p.m., every 10 minutes:
Courtyard Express Day, Courtyard Express
Night, Campus Connector North, Campus
Connector South, Laurel Park & Ride, NITE
Ride and Paratransit Service

Semester service resumes Jan. 26.

Library Winter Hours

T7 or a complete list of
JL Library hours, see

HORNBAKE LIBRARY

www. lib . umd.edu/PUB-

NONPRINT MEDIA

SERV/ hours_all.html.

SERVICES

McKeldin and Hornbake

Library hours are listed

DECEMBER:

below.

14: 12 pm- 11 pm

15-18: 8 am- 11 pm

MCKELDIN LIBRARY

19(Fri)

8 am - 6 pm

DECEMBER:

20(Sat)

12(Fri)

12 pm - 5 pm

8:00 am- 11 pm**

2 1 (Sun)(Commencement)

13(Sat)

CLOSED

10:O0am- 11 pm"

22-23 (Mon-Tues)

14-19(Sun-Fri)

9 am - 5 pm

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24 (Wed)

20(Sat)

9 am - 12 Noon

1 am - 6 pm

25 (Thurs)(Holiday)

2 KSunXCommence-

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26-31 (Fri-Wed)

1 2 pm - 5 pm

CLOSED

22-23 (Mon-Tues)

9 am - 5 pm

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24CWed)

1 (Thurs)(Holiday)

9 am- 12 Noon

CLOSED

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2(Fri)

CLOSED

26-31 (Fri-Wed)

3-4 (Sat-Sun)

CLOSED

JANUARY:

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DECEMBER:

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2(Fri)

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CLOSED

1 2 through Friday, Dec.

3-4 (Sat-Sun)

19.

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Dining Services Exam Week Hours

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JLJL change based upon the

CAFES AND QUICK FOODS

Dec. 19:9 a.m.-3 p.m.

Applause Cafe

academic calendar and with-

Dec. 15-19: normal hours

Leonardtown Shop

out prior notice. Watch for

Dec. 15-18: normal hours

updates on

Bytes @ A. V.Williams

Dec. 19: 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

www.diriing.umd.edu and in

Dec. 15-19: normal hours

dining locations.

North Campus Shop (Free

The Dairy

coffee and fountain sodas, 9

DINING HALLS

Dec. 15-22: normal hours

p.m.-close,Dec. 15-18)

South Campus

Dec. 15-18: normal hours
Dec.l9:9a.m.-3pm.

Dec. 15-20: 7:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.

E + M Bakery

Dec. 21:11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Dec.l5-19:8a.m.-2p,m.

The Pro Shop

Late Night Dining

E f M Deli

Dec. 13-14: 11 a.m.-8 p.m.

Closes Dec. 1 1

Dec. 15-19: 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Dec. 15-19:7 a.m,-8 p.m.

Gazebo Room

Marketplace Deli @ Comcast

The Union Shop

Closes Dec. 12

Closes Dec. 12:2 p.m.

Dec. 15-18: normal hours

Physics Cart

Dec. 19, 22, 23: 8 a.m.-i p.m.

The Diner

Dec. 15-19: normal hours

Dec. 20-21: Closed

Dec. 15-19:7.30 a.m.-7 p.m.

Dec. 20:7:30 a.m.-2 p.m.

Rudy's Cafe

STAMP STUDENT UNION

Dec. 15-19: 7:30 a.m.-4 p.m.

FOOD COURT

Late Night Dining

Chick-Fil-A

ClosesDec.il

Sneakers Cafe

Dec. 15-19: normal hours

Dec. 13-14: 1 1:30 a.m.-8 p.m.

Dec. 22-23: 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

RESTAURANTS

Dec.l5-19:8a.m.-8p.m.

Adele's

Marketplace Deli

Dec. 1 5-19, Lunch: normal

Taco Bell Express Engineering

Dec. 1 5-1 9: normal hours

hours

Dec. 15-19: 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

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Taco Bell Stamp Union

p.m.

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Dec. 15-19: normal hours

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Dec. 22-23: 1 1 a.m.-2 p.m.

Mulligans Grill

and fountain sodas 9 p.m.-

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close.Dec. 15-18)

The Coffee Bar Express

Dec. 15-18: normal hours

Dec. 15-19: normal hours

Book Bag

A History
off Online
Information
Services,
1963-1976

Trudi Bellardo
Hahn, manager of
library user educa-
tion services and
adjunct professor,
College of Informa-
tion Studies; and
Charles P. Bourne

(MIT Press, Cam-
bridge, Mass., Sep-
tember 2003)

A narrative of the
early development of online information retrieval systems and
services, exploring a period important to those who use search
engines, online catalogs, or large databases.

Working In a

24/7 Economy:
Challenges for
American
Families

Harriet B. Pressor,
Department of Sociol-
ogy

{Russell Sage
Foundation, New
York, 2003)

Using data from
two large-scale
national surveys,
book focuses on the
effects of nonstan-
dard work schedules
on family functioning.

Watergate:
The Presidential
Scandal That
Shook America

Keith W. Olson,
Department of His-
tory

{University Press of
Kansas, Lawrence,
Kan., May 2003)

A history that high-
lights the key actors,
event and implica-
tions of the scandal.

T. Rex: Hunter or
Scavenger?

The

Presidential Scandal

that Snook America

KEITH W. OLSON

TREK

Thomas R. Holtz
Jr., director of the
Earth, Life, and Time
Program

(Random House/
Golden Books, New
York, 2003)

Part of Random
House's Step into
Reading series of
books, this Jurassic
Park Institute Read-
er pulls from the
popular movies to
explore the Tyran-
nosaurus rex.

DECEMBER I 6 , 2003

University to Send Off Winter, August Graduates

Nearly 3,000 students will walk across
various stages this weekend to receive their
diplomas as the university hosts its twice
yearly rite of passage— commencement.

Criminal justice tops the undergraduate
most popular majors list, and for another
year, masters of business administration
degrees will go to more than 300 students.

Electrial engineering and music switched
places this year as the most popular doctoral
degree. This year, electrical engineering
will bestow 25 doctorates and music will
give 21.

As with many previous years, this class of
graduates comes from a diverse population
of 35,329 students. More than 170 coutries

are represented, as well as 50 states.

Faculty and staff are encouraged to attend
the campuswide ceremony at 7 p.m. on
Dec. 20 in the Comcast Center. Depart-
ment ceremonies will be held Sunday after-
noon and evening. For more commence-
ment information, turn to page 6, or go to
www.urhoine.umd.edu/commencement.

Commencement Schedule

Individual graduation exercises for colleges
and schools will be held at various campus
locations on Sunday afternoon. Guests are
urged to be seated approximately one half-
hour prior to the designated time for the cere-
monies if they wish to observe the student and
faculty processional.

Campuswide Commencement
7:00 p.m. Comcast Center ■

Ceremonies held Sunday, December 21

A. James Clark School of Engineering

1:00 p.m. Reckord Armory

College of Agriculture and Natural Resources

1:00 p.m. Memorial Chapel

College of Arts and Humanities — Department
Gatherings

1:00 p.m. An History /An Studio

Art- Sociology Building. Room 2203
2:00 p.m. Communication

Ritchie Coliseum
1:00 p.m. Dance /Tlieatre

Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center,

Kogod Theatre
1:00 p.m. English /Comparative Literature/

American Studies/Women's Studies

Tawes Theatre
1:00 p.m. Foreign Languages /Linguistics

Tydings Hal!, Room 0130
1:00 p.m. History /Jewish Studies /Russian

Skinner HaQ, Room 0200
5:00 p.m. Musit

Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center,

Gildenhorn Recital Hall
1:00 p.m. Ph ilosophy

Nyumburu Center

College of Behavioral and Social Sciences

1:00 p.m. Cole Student Activities Building

College of Computer, Mathematical and Physical
Sciences

1:00 p.m. Clarice Smith Performing Are Center,

Dekelbouin Concert Hall

College of Education

4:00 p.m. Cole Student Activities Building

College of Health and Human Performance

1:00 p.m. Health and Human Performance, Room

2240

College of Information Studies
2:00 p.m. Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center,
Gildenhorn Recital Hall

College of Life Sciences
4:00 p.m. Memorial Chapel

Philip Merrill School of Journalism

1:00 pm. HoffTheatcr

Robert H. Smith School of Business

1:00 p.m. Comcast Center

School of Architecture, Planning, and

Preservation

1:00 p.m. Architecture Building Great Space

Undergraduate Individual Studies

1:00 p.m. PG Room, Stamp Student Union

Google Cofounder Keynote Speaker at Cornmencement

Few Internet users surf the World Wide Web without
Google, the popular search engine recently donated
to the university. So it is an especially nice gift that
its creator, Sergey Brin, president of technology, will speak
at winter commencement.

Brin, who graduated in 1993 with a bachelor's degree in
math and computer science, co-created the tool in 1 998
with fellow Stanford graduate student Larry Page. Both
took academic leave from the doctoral program to launch
Google. Only two years after its creation, Google claimed
an index of more than one billion pages. It now searches
more than three billion pages and Nielsen/Net ratings last
February counted 7 3- 5 million unique global users per
month. More than half of Google's traffic comes from out-
side of the United States. A privately held company,
Google currently has more than 1,000 employees world-
wide, 60 with doctoral degrees.

Now 30, Brin was named Maryland's Outstanding Young
Alumnus in May. Brin's ties to the university remain close.
His father, Michael, is a math professor at Maryland. Brin,
who brought the family to the United States from Russia
when Sergey was 6, says he is "extremely proud and

happy" to have his son
speak during the com-
mencement cere-
monies.

For his part, Sergey
Brin praises the educa-
tion he got at Mary-
land: "I got a lot of
attention, a lot of one
on one. I was better
prepared than peers
from MIT and Harvard."

His education here
got an early start. He dropped out of high school after his
junior year to enroll as a full-time student in the uni versi-
fy 's College of Computer, Mathematical, and Physical Sci-
ences to study math, graduating in just three years.

Brin serves on the college's Board of Visitors. This past
summer, he donated a special version of Google to the
university as part of a company donation program aimed
at selected institutions. The two-year donation is valued at
$28,000.

Sergey Brin

Passionately Melding Music and Science

Robyn Ellyn Sanderson

fever the proper-
ties of a left brain
and a right brain
harmonized in one per-
son, they did so in
Robyn Ellyn Sanderson,
an A' student who is as
passionate about sci-
ence as she is about
music. Just a credit or
two shy of a citation in
French, this double
astronomy and physics
major says she can't imagine choosing between scientific
study or singing. Besides Maryland's prestigious Chamber
Singers, Sanderson sings in a Virginia-based choral group
and was the music director of a student singing group,
Voices of Truth, at Maryland for most of her college career.
In addition to the requirements for her two intense aca-
demic majors, Sanderson loaded her course schedule with
classes such as, ancient Greek and scuba, just because
they interested her. During her junior year she earned A's
in French gastronomy, literature, music and cinema while
studying abroad for a semester at the University of Bur-
gundy in France. At Maryland she also had what she calls

The Winter Graduates

the greatest job you can have on campus as an under-
grad — working as a teacher's assistant —Sanderson taught
six classes and now aspires to become a physics profes-
sor.

"I love being around an academic environment. I think
that working at a university would be good for me. I like
the idea of taking classes for free," she says adding that she
would like to have a chance to take more history, litera-
ture and language courses.

With the plan of beginning graduate school next fall to
work towards a physics doctorate, Sanderson says she is
looking forward to a break. She will be visiting a friend in
Spain for a few weeks after graduation and then wants to
do something "fun" for a while before going back to
school, like work in a physics lab.

According to physics professor Thomas Cohen, despite
the tendency for men to dominate physics in terms of
numbers and classroom dynamics, Sanderson held her
own in class. "A refreshing exception... Robyn functioned
as the intellectual leader in class discussion, often asking
probing questions about derivations " he says.

Edward Maclary, associate professor of music, is equally
impressed with Sanderson. "She brings an unrivalled work
ethic, a contagious enthusiasm and a genuine talent for
singing to every rehearsal," he says.

Applicant* for degrees

Most popular Ph.D. degrees*

Moil popular

Electrical Engineering 25

undergraduate majors*

Mmic 21

1 . Criminal Justice

1,266

Computer Science 15

2. Computer Science

1.223

Mechanical Engineering IS

830

Marine, Esrtiarine and

4. Government and Politic*

Bin

Environmental Science 13

5. Economics

Wfi

PtycJiotogY 13
English 13

Molt popular

undergraduate degrttf *

* Bdsfd upon pasi ittrrt ^uttuiitiom:

e . Criminal Justice

312

Eke *Q2,Maf 'OS, Aug '03

2, Communication

273

3, Government and Politic!

245

4. Economics

234

5, Computer Science

213

Fall 2003 Students at a Glance

Total enrollment:

35,329

Graduate Students:

9,883

Full-time;

6,503

Part-time:

3,380

Undergraduates:

25,446

Students of color:

32%

Fufl-time:

23,016

Part-time:

2,430

States represented:

(plus Guam, Puerto

Rico and the Virgin

Islands)

Countries represented:

171

OUTLOOK

NYU Professor Sparks Discussion
on Urban School Reform

Higher standards and
tests alone in urban
education will not
improve student achievement,
contended New York University
professor of education Pedro
Noguera, speaking at the Nyum-
buru Center multipurpose room
last Wednesday afternoon.

"I think we should be using
tests for diagnostic purposes to
see what [students'] learning
needs are," Noguera said.
"School reforms fail because we
don't focus on changing the cul-
ture of the schools; if we don't
change the culture of schools,
nothing changes."

"City Schools and the Ameri-
can Dream: Reclaiming the

Lynn, in the Department of Cur-
riculum and Instruction (EDCI),
and several EDCI graduate and
doctoral students, lasted two
hours, not including a follow-up
question-and-answer session
held in Cole Field House.

Lynn said Noguera was origi-
nally invited to campus to solely
discuss the issue of school drop-
outs.

"Once we heard that he was
coming, we decided that we
should do another talk about
his bookrLynn said."I think the
message sent was about looking
deeply at the social problems
we have and how they impact
urban schools. He also advises
us to spend time in urban

PHOTO BY OESAIH SHOWN

Pedro Noguera, professor of education at New York University, calls for an
in-depth look at city schools' problems.

Promise of Public Education,"
Noguera s newest book, uses
extensive research findings to
show that urban student

achievement rests on the
fight for social and economic
equality

"When schools have chil-
dren's best interest at heart, you
also see a much higher coopera-
tion and partnership between
parents and schools," said
Noguera, using Catholic schools
as an example.

Last week's event, planned by
education professor Marvin

schools so that we know more
about how to fix them."

Jessica Palladino, an EDCI
doctoral student and a member
of the event's planning commit-
tee, said she was thrilled with
the turnout. "I thought his
speech was important for urban
education," Palladino said.

"It was a different perspec-
tive of academia. . . I look for-
ward to the more intimate dis-
cussion of the issues in his
speech, and what he would rec-
ommend as far as change in
urban education "

The Facts About Homework

The Brookings Institution's Brown Center 2003 Report on
American Education says that school students don't have
substantially more homework today than they did 20 years
ago. The study concludes that there is virtually no evidence sup-
porting the claim that homework loads have increased significantly
in recent years. Among the study's findings is that students, even at
the high school level, typically do not spend more than an hour per
day doing homework. On average, the time kids spent doing home-
work increased just three to five minutes per day between 1981
and 1997. And, despite news stories about parents outraged at the
theft-by-homework of their children's childhoods, most parents feel
the amount of work their children bring home from school is
appropriate — and their children agree. Anecdotal evidence to the
contrary may be widely and dramatically reported in the media, but
is not the experience of a majority of students.

The Brown Center on Education Policy conducts research on
topics in American education, focusing on efforts to improve aca-
demic achievement in elementary and secondary schools. For more
information, visit www.brookings.edu/gs/brown/bc_report/2003/
20Q3report.htm.

Underwater: Real People, Surreal Images

Continued from page 1

PHOTO BY BARBARA TYROLER

Student Regina Kim and her grandmother try out a pose together. Below, Barbara Tyroler with Guivanns
Jones, 5.

"The photos from the work-
shop will soon be available on
display," says Tyroler, who pro-
motes community activity to
her students working toward
professional and scholarly
achievements. "This workshop
was a pilot project, an experi-
ment. We plan to do it again.

"Prince George's. County js ,
really active in the arts, and
that's what it's all about - the
community resources coming
together to make art happen."

Trained as an art and journal-
istic photographer, with a sec-
ond career in special education
counseling,Tyroler has man-
aged to combine her interests
in teaching, freelance photog-
raphy and arts program devel-
opment with an emphasis on
adolescents and families.

A May graduate of the Uni-
versity of Maryland, Baltimore
County, Tyroler received her
master of fine arts degree, after
completing a thesis with the
same photographs that made
up the Greenbelt-based exhibi-
tion.

"The exhibitions I have pro-
duced over the last 20 years
reflect themes of self-develop-
ment, journeys and mystical or
surreal portraiture incorporat-
ing people into abstract or
symbolic environments," she
says. "My work also reflects 20
years of photographing images
influenced by a strong and nur-
turing family life, where 'home'
is expressed as the people and
places where security, inspira-
tion and adventure coexist."

For nearly 1 5 years, Tyroler
served as the community serv-
ice arts outreach coordinator
for the university's Art Center.
She also is the recipient of 18
local, state and nationally fund-
ed arts-in-education grants.

Tyroler also runs a commer-
cial photography business, Ani-
mage Photography, where she
specializes in portraits and

weddings.

Tyroler's work is unique, said
Regina Kim, one of Tyroler's
photography students.

"She's doing a really good
job getting our class involved
in this aspect of photography,"
says Kim, 22, a senior studio art
major.

Kim attended the workshop
with her 77-year-old grand-
mother, who posed as a subject
for the underwater photo-
graphs."! enjoyed playing with
the water and the acrylic mir-
rors to create a lot of different
angles for taking pictures of
my grandmother.

"I like abstract photography,"
Kim says. "Water is very clear,
and to see an image distorted
in the water is very interest-
ing."

Tyroler says she will contin-
ue her underwater photogra-
phy project, which she
describes as more of a psycho-

PHOTO BY SHARON NATOLI

logical exploration of familial
relationships than anything
else, but she also is interested
in nocturnal portraiture - the
perspective of nighttime pho-
tography.

Most importantly, however,
Tyroler plans to continue offer-
ing community workshops and
hopes university faculty and
their children, as well as stu-
dents and their parents, will
attend future workshops.

"Artistic photography and
community arts projects com-
plement my role as a photogra-
phy instructor " she says. "As a
member of the American Soci-
ety of Media Photographers, I
constantly have to remind
myself at the meetings - mostly
focused on digital technology -
that my work is about commu-
nity and family, not just about
technology."

— Charmere Gatson,
journalism graduate student

DECEMBER 16, 2003

Exam Week Lunch Specials

Look for hot entrees, specialty
sandwiches and salad specials
available at the Dairy, Physics Cart,
Rudy's Cafe, Applause Cafe and
E&M Deli during exam week.
Lunch specials are available week-
days through Friday, Dec. 19.

For locations and hours, visit
www.dining.umd.edu. For menu
descriptions, visit www.dining.
umd.edu/daily/sansal.cfm. Menu
offerings are subject to change
without notice.

For more information, contact
Shirlene Chase at (301) 314*054
or schase@dining.umd.edu.

Holi-Days Off

Governor Robert Ehrlich
announced last week that state
employees will be given Dec. 26 as
an extra day to celebrate the holi-
day season. So that uni versify
employees can receive the same
extra holiday as other state
employees, President Dan Mote is
extending the winter break
through Jan. 2. The university will
reopen on Monday, Jan. 5.

Regalia Rental

Faculty and staff regalia can be
picked up in the Nanticoke Room
from Dec. 15-19 from 10 a.m. to
6 p.m.

For more information, contact
Meghan Cadden at (301) 314-7839
or mcadden@ubcmail.umd.edu, or
visit www, ubc.umd.edu.

Fall Grades

The deadline for submitting final
fall grades is 10 a.m. on Monday,
Jan. 5- Faculty are encouraged to
submit their grades before the
start of the holidays, although the
UMEG system will be available for
use throughout the holiday break.
There are serious consequences
for students if grades are not sub-
mitted by the Jan. 5 deadline.
Graduating students cannot be
cleared, and delaying the receipt of
a student's diploma can sometimes
affect planned employment. Miss-
ing grades can result in erroneous
academic actions related to semes-
ter honors or probation and dis-
missal. The receipt of scholarships
and financial aid can also be
delayed. Lastly, students rely on
course grades when making spring
and summer registration decisions.

Dissertation Fellowships

The Harry Frank Guggenheim
Foundation welcomes proposals
from any of the natural and social
sciences and the humanities that
promise to increase understanding
of the causes, manifestations, and
control of violence, aggression and
dominance. Highest priority is
given to research that can increase
understanding and amelioration of
urgent problems of violence,
aggression and dominance in the
modern world.

These fellowships of $15,000
each are designed to contribute to
the support of the doctoral can di-

Calling all Faculty and Staff Visual Artists

LE PHOTO BY CYNTHIA MITCHEL

At the finale of last Year's Fun for the FUNd talent show, several administrators did their best Elvis impersonations. This
year's variety show will be held on April 27 at 3:30 p.m. Details for the show, auction and raffle ere still being confirmed.

Do you paint, sculpt or quilt? Are you skilled in drawing, graphic design or photography?
Would you like an opportunity to showcase your talent and creatively contribute to a wor-
thy cause?

If yes, then here's your chance. The call is open for those willing to donate their art for the
Second Annual Fun for the FUNd: Celebrating Maryland Online Silent Auction that benefits the
Faculty Staff Assistance Program's Emergency Loan Fund (ELF). The fond is entirely dependent on
contributions from the campus community. All proceeds raised through the auction benefit ELF a
support service helping faculty and staff with unexpected financial emergencies provided through
the loan fond. For more information, go to www. umd.edu/FSAP.

Those interested in donating their art are are asked to send their full name, campus department,
phone, email, office address and three sentences describing their talent by Feb. 6 to Deborah
Starobin- Armstrong via email at: darmstrong@academyumd.edu, or via campus mail at: James
MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership, 1111 Taliaferro Hall.

So breakout the paint
brushes, drawing pencils
and crochet needles,
'cause it's time to have
some Fun for the FUNd.

Fun for the FUNd

Celebrating Maryland Online Silent Auction

date to enable htm or her to com-
plete the thesis in a timely manner,
and it is only appropriate to apply
for support for the final year of
doctoral work.

Applications for dissertation fel-
lowships must be received by Feb.
1 for a decision in June. For more
information, contact the Harry
Frank Guggenheim Foundation at
527 Madison Avenue, New York,
NY 10022, or (21 2) 644-4907 by
phone, or (2 1 2) 644-5 1 1 by tax.

WebCT is the Web-based course
management tool supported by
the Office of Information Technol-
ogy. This January the Institute for
Instructional Technology will
sponsor a series of workshops to
survey various features of the tool,
including: What is WebCT?, WebCT
Quick Start for Large Classes, Get-
ting Started with WebCT, WebCT
Course Content, webCT Course
Management, WebCT Collaboration
and Communication, and WebCT
Assessment and Evaluation.

Most workshops are 1.5 hours
in length and are free to faculty
and others who are teaching cred-
ited courses. Visit the IT Web site
for course descriptions and regis-
tration information at www.oit.
umd . edu/iit/current. html .

For more information, contact
Deborah Mateik at (301) 405-2945
or oit-training@umd.edu.

Teaching with Technology
Proposals

The Teaching With Technology
Conference offers opportunities
for faculty, teaching assistants and
instructional technology support
staff to discuss, demonstrate, or
debate use of technology to
enhance the teaching and learning
process. The call for proposals is
underway until Feb. 20. Online
proposal submission is available at
www.oit.umd.edu/twt.

For more information, contact
Deborah Mateik at (301) 405-2945
or zdeb@umd.edu.

Hearth Center Services

The University Health Center has
reached the midpoint of its reno-
vation project. The new addition
has been completed and it is now
time to renovate the existing build-
ing. The services of the Health
Center will be moving to the new
addition over the next several
weeks and as a result you may
experience some disruption in
services until Jan. 1 4. The normal
appointment system will resume

on Jan. 15. Once the transition has
been completed to the new addi-
tion, access to Health Center serv-
ices will be available at the rear of
the building next to Jimenez Hall.
Final completion of the renovation
project is scheduled for early next
fall. Some specific information is
listed below for three services.

For more information, visit
ww^v health. umd.edu.

Pharmacy

Closed: Dec. 18-23
Open: Dec. 24, 9:30 a.m. -noon
New Location: 1 171 in the new
addition of the Health Center

Faculty Staff Assistance
Program

Closed: Jan. 5-9

Opcn:Jan. 12,9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
New Location: 0102 A-B in the
New Addition of the Health Center

Women's Health

Open: Dec. 1 5 for emergency

contraception and birth control

refills only

Closed: Dec. 16-24 and Jan. 5-14
For emergencies during these
dates, contact Urgent Care in
the Health Center, or visit www.
plannedparenthood.org or call
(800) 230-PLAN.

Open: Jan. 15

New Location: 2101 in the the

New Addition of the Health Center

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