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prologue
history
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A glimpse at All's history through the eyes of the
old yearbooks. Featured yearbooks include the
1927, 1935, 1945 and 1955 Aucolas and the
1965 and 1975 Talons.
1927 Aucola
1935 Aucola
1945 Aucola
1955 Aucola
1965 Talon
1975 Talon
historical dateline
50
54
58
62
66
70
74
campus
78
Six different perspectives on the university, each
with its own subsection. They include campus
features, dateline, faces, arts, athletics and
groups.
features
80
Reflections on AU
80
AU85
82
The Adnan Khashoggi Center
84
Clendenen: The End of an Era
86
Immaculata: The Beginning of Another
87
Student Activism in the 80's
88
To Drink or Not To Drink
90
Nuclear Awareness
92
Moonie Madness
94
A Post Card from Europe
96
Interview with Adnan Khashoggi
98
Interview with Richard Berendzen
100
Board of Trustees
102
The Faculty's View
104
Thoughts from a Staff Person
108
Life Beyond the B.S.
109
dateline
no
August
110
September
112
October
114
November
116
December
118
January
120
February
122
March
124
April
126
May
128
faces
130
arts
142
artists at work
142
Tokyo String Quartet
144
Opera: Elizabeth Schwarzkopf
145
Fall Dance Concert
146
Spring Dance Concert
148
"Antigone"
150
"The Roar of the Greasepaint ..."
152
"The Children's Hour"
154
"Mr. Wonderful"/"Standing Eight"
156
"The Taming of the Shrew"
158
Watkins art gallery
160
athletics
262
cheerleaders
162
baseball
163
men's basketball
164
women's basketball
166
cross country
168
golf
168
field hockey
169
soccer
170
swimming
174
tennis
175
wrestling
176
team shots
178
groups
182
Accounting Club
182
Alpha Kappa Alpha
182
Alpha Sigma Phi
183
American Literary
184
College Republicans
185
Confederation Media Commission
185
Catholic Student Association 186
Delta Sigma Theta 186
The Eagle 187
Ecological Conservation Organization 188
Gaelic League 189
Gospel Choir 189
Graduate Student Council 190
Iranian Cultural and Social
Association 191
Mortar Board 191
Native American Student Club 192
SGPA Council 193
SON Council 194
Student Union Board 194
contents
1985 Talon 195
Turkish American International
Student Association 196
Undergraduate Business Association 196
Venezuela Student Association 197
WAMU-AM 197
WAVE-TV2 198
Women in Communication 199
Young Americans for Freedom 199
data
202
A factual view of 1984-85. Includes theresultsof
the 1985 Talon poll of student opinions, statis-
tics about AU students, and a national year in
review.
year in review
214
metro
220
A look at life beyond Ward Circle. Where to go in
the evening, how to get there, and short features
on nine areas in the Washington metropolitan
area.
How to Ride the Metro Like a Native 222
D.C. at Night 224
Adams Morgan 227
Alexandria 228
Anacostia 229
Bethesda 230
Capitol Hill 231
Embassy Row 232
Georgetown 233
Pennsylvania Avenue 234
Spring Valley 235
academia 238
Descriptions of each college, school and depart-
ment at AU, accompanied by formal portraits of
graduating seniors in each individual area.
College of Arts and Sciences 242
CAS faculty profiles 244
American studies 246
anthropology 247
art 248
biology 250
chemistry 251
communication 252
economics 256
education 257
general studies 258
history 259
Jewish studies 260
language and foreign studies 261
literature 262
mathematics, statistics and
computer science 263
performing arts 265
philosophy and religion 266
physical education 267
physics 268
psychology 269
sociology 271
College of Public and International
Affairs 272
CPIA faculty profiles 274
government and public administration276
international service
justice
technology and administration
Kogod College of Business
Administration
KCBA faculty profiles
accounting
finance and business institutions
international business
management and policy studies
marketing
Lucy Webb Hayes School of Nursing
SON faculty profile
nursing
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284
286
290
292
294
296
298
300
302
304
305
epilogue 306
note from editor
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here are no rules about
leaping into the new,
because no one has ever
been there before."
The proceeding quote
has been above my desk
all year, and it seems to
capture the spirit of the
1985 Talon.
As you look through
the pages of this year-
book, you will see that it is in many ways
unconventional. We have tried the untried
and written new rules for ourselves. The
fact that there has not been a highly struc-
tured format used by past Talon staffs has
allowed us to experiment. We chose to
work with a clean slate.
First you will probably notice the tight
organization of the book, with strongly de-
fined sections, arranged in a logical se-
quence. This is to help the reader find what,
he/she is looking for.
Then you might notice the addition of
new sections and subsections, most of
which have never been tried at AU, and
some of which have never been tried any-
where (as far as we know). These include
the history, data and metro sections, and
the campus features, dateline, faces and
arts subsections.
Other obvious changes include the
placement of advertisements between sec-
tions and the organization of senior por-
traits into individual academic units, with
features on each unit.
If you are a close observer, you might
even notice the most important innovation
in the 1985 Talon; the one that is at the
heart of all the cosmetic changes: the goal
of accurately documenting the 1984-85 ac-
ademic year at The American University.
Now you may ask how that is different,
seeing as a yearbook is by definition a
documentation of the year. Yet not all year-
books reach that goal, and often lose sight
of it.
The purpose of the 1985 Talon is to
present the reader with glimpses of AU
during the 1984-85 year, using quality de-
sign, photographs and articles. We have
attempted to present the diversity of view-
points that represents the diversity in the
AU community.
We have not produced the book just for
graduating seniors. It should be for the
whole university — students, faculty, staff
and administration. All are an important
part of AU. It is my personal hope that
someday the Talon could be funded in
such a way that everyone would be able to
get a copy free, I think it is something
everyone should have access to.
Please take your time looking through
this yearbook. I think you will find it worth
your time. Don't just look at the pictures.
Although we are very proud of our photo-
graphs, the articles are just as good. You
may like what you find.
Producing a yearbook, like any other ma-
jor project, is not an easy task. There were
bumps in the road, some bigger than
others. But there are people who have
helped us over those bumps, and I would
like to thank them here.
They include: John Bailey, Lou Anne
Caligiuri, Mary Jo Casciato, Alexandra
Clough, Zhanna Giffen, Toni Glover, Linda
Goldfield, Glenn Harnden, Frank Jordan,
Richard Lesse, Stan McGaughan, Gwen
Miller, Carmen Neuberger, Peggy O'Hara,
Bruce Poynter, Bill Ross, Tracy Samuel,
Joel Siegel, William Stahr, Sandra Walter,
Jo Williams, Marcia Wymor and Stan
Young.
John Quale
1985 Talon
editor in chief
editorial board
John Quale
Donna "Bugs" Schou
Ashley Pound
Rebecca Rennert
Brad Gretter
Angela Lurie
Ingrid Tischer
Laura Cruger
Michelle Brooks
Carrie Earle
editor in chief
photography editor
senior contributing editor
editorial assistant
business manager
senior copy editor
academia editor
arts editor
athletics editor
metro editor
Denise DiStefano
Tracy Outlaw
Candace Jones
Debbie Brown
Kathi Dehm
Carla Pappalardo
Richard Bernstein
Jim McGinnis
Beth Barak
Jacqueline Brown
Ronnie Callan
Lori Saitz
Laurie Swindull
assistant photography editor
assistant photography editor
copy editor
administrative assistant
administrative assistant
design assistant
advertising director
advertising director
contributing editor
contributing editor
contributing editor
contributing editor
contributing editor
contributors
John Edgar
Betsy Karp
copy
David Aldridge
Russell Atwood
Kevin Bohn
Glen Bolger
Camray Clark
Alexandra Clough
Amy Elstein
Gidget Fuentes
Peter Gasparini
Laura George
Marc Grossman
Courtney Guthreau
Cat Hurst
Lisa Johnston
Christine Kent
Nicole Lennox
Carol Long
Joe McGill
Richard O'Brien
Tracy Samuel
Andrea Schwarzmann
Mark Williams
Mike Willner
photography
Ben Boblett
Mira Courpas
Tim Erickson
Conchita Font
Luke Frazza
Adam Glassman
Arthur Golden
Lois Greenfield
Harlan Hambright
Carl Hanni
Alegria Hayes
Carol Highsmith
Ahmed Kochji
Annette Lein
Clay Lile
David Lingua
John Marx
Howard McCurdy
Paul Papier
C. Stainer
Ronald Thomas
Sandra Walter
Carol Werner
Erin Williams
C.A. Wolff
colophon
1985 Talon, volume 59, is the yearbook
of The American University. The book was
printed by Hunter Publishing Company,
Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Each
copy contains 328 pages, 46 in four-color.
The cover is 56602 burgandy vellum,
with the type applied in PMS 424. End-
sheets are PMS 424 printed on white
linen.
The trim size is 9 x 12, and all pages are
gloss paper with black ink. Body copy is in
10 point Melior, set two point leaded. Italic
type is Palatino Italic.
Copies of the book were sold for $20, and
the total operating budget was approx-
imately $33,000.
Varden Studios, Rochester, New York,
photographed the graduating seniors, and
color prints were made by Varden Studios,
Asman Custom Photo Service and Colorfax
Laboratories.
Additional specifications available
upon request; 228 Mary Graydon Center,
The American University, Washington,
D.C. 20016, (202) 885-1420.
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"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it
is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to music
he hears, however measured or far away."
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Hamlet, Shakespeare
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I am only on the way.
I am making a pilgrimage
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AU'S HISTORY:
t has been the earnest
aim of this, the first AU-
COLA STAFF, to create
a publication embody-
ing the highest stan-
dards of our college,
worthy to stand as a pre-
cedent for succeeding
issues of its kind, and to
be a memorial to the
classes of '27 and '28.
"Our experience as
classes has been short, but the memory of
that experience is to be the more carefully
cherished because of the rare privilege we
have had during it to establish the first
traditions of our Alma Mater. It (is) to help
perpetuate this memory that we have pub-
lished this book."
from the Foreword
of the University's
first yearbook,
the 1927 Aucola
Since the publication of its first edition,
AU's yearbook has strived to document the
history of the university. Published reg-
ularly since the opening of the first under-
graduate college at the university, the book
was originally titled Aucola, an acronym for
American University College of Liberal
Arts (now known as the College of Arts and
Sciences). By 1956, other colleges had
been added, and consequently, the name
was changed to Talon, the claw of the uni-
versity's mascot, the eagle.
Over the years, the Aucola/Talon staffs
have approached their task of providing a
permanent historical document in a vari-
ety of ways. Some were concerned with
upholding traditions, others with breaking
them. Several of the volumes have excel-
lent written accounts of the year, while
others were completely picture books. Yet
the one trait all of AU's yearbooks have in
common is that they have built upon
trends prevalent in the university and the
nation at the time to form a perspective on
the academic year. A browse through these
yearbooks not only provides a glimpse at
how the university has changed, but also a
chance to witness the transitions of Ameri-
can society. Many of the university's year-
books have been progressive, both in
theme and design, and all of them have
provided training ground for writers,
graphic designers and photographers.
Many of the
university's
yearbooks have been
progressive, both in
theme and design,
and
all of them have
provided training
ground
for writers, graphic
designers and
photographers.
In this section, the 1985 Talon is attempt-
ing to provide a deeper understanding of
AU's history to the university community.
We believe that only with knowledge of
AU's infancy and early years can this uni-
versity reach its long-term goals. We have
reproduced full pages from the first year-
book and from one edition every ten years
thereafter. Therefore the 1927, 1935, 1945,
and 1955 Aucolas and the 1965 and 1975
Talons are the books that are featured. In
addition, information from some of the
years between is provided.
It should be stressed that this is by no
means a complete history of the university,
but only a quick glance at AU through the
eyes of the yearbooks. AU has a long histo-
ry dating back to the chartering of the uni-
versity by an Act of Congress in 1893, not
all of which can be presented here.
Any member of the university communi-
ty interested in learning more about AU's
Vera Stafford Knight, editor of AU's first yearbook, the 1927 Aucola.
history should stop by the University Ar-
chives, located on the 3rd floor of the Ben-
der Library. In addition, to help put AU's
history in perspective a short historical
dateline is provided on page 74.
The 1985 Talon dedicates this history
section to the late Vera Stafford Knight,
editor of the 1927 Aucola, and the late Ma-
rion Logue, University Archivist from
1971 to 1984. Both provided the original
inspiration for the section. We should also
like to thank all the Aucola/Talon editors
and staff members who came out of the
woodwork to provide information for the
section, as well as the University Archives,
the University Publications and Printing
Office, and the Office of Alumni and Par-
ent Relations, who were instrumental in
gathering research.
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Through the Eyes of the Yearbooks
history section
compiled and
written by
John Quale.
1985 Talon
editor in chief
Title page from All's first yearbook, the 1927 Aucola
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1927
AUCOLA
Uolume 1
ocated in a corner room
on the 2nd floor of Bat-
telle Memorial over-
looking what has come
to be known as "the
Quad," the staff of the
2927 Aucola produced
the university's first
yearbook. The Battelle
Memorial, which now
houses the Kogod Col-
lege of Business Ad-
ministration, was the university's library
at the time. The corner room on the 2nd
floor now serves as the office for KCBA's
dean.
Although the university had been char-
tered almost 35 years before, and graduate
courses were being offered on the universi-
ty's downtown campus at 19th and F
streets, NW, the new undergraduate col-
lege had just opened. In fact, the years
1925-1927 were a time of many firsts for
the university: the first football and basket-
ball teams, the first dance, the first issue of
The American Eagle, the first theatre perfor-
mance, and, of course, the first Aucola to
document the beginning of The Amercian
University College of Liberal Arts.
The 1927 Aucola staff was well aware of
the importance of establishing traditions
where none existed. Under the leadership
of editor Vera L. Stafford, the Aucola strived
for a balance between producing a stu-
dent's memory book and presenting the
university's history. The book was de-
signed in a colonial style to coincide with
the newly built Chancellor's House (now
the President's Office Building) and the
Battelle Memorial. The volume was 82
pages long and contained at least one pic-
ture of every student, administrator and
faculty member at the university, a feat
completely impossible today.
In addition to being the first yearbook
editor, Vera Stafford was the first under-
graduate to register at the university, and
the first resident of the women's dormitory
(today known as Mary Graydon Center).
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Page 24 of the 1927 Aucola includes the senior portrait of Vera Stafford (Knight), All's first yearbook editor and
first undergraduate registrant.
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Miss Stafford became Mrs. Lytle Knight
and eventually became director of the Stu-
dio Gallery in Alexandria. In the early
1960's, Mrs. Knight used her unique per-
spective on the university to write a column
for the university's alumni magazine. Un-
fortunately, Mrs. Knight passed away after
only two installments of the column. Yet,
these two columns, along with the text of
the 1927 Aucola, provide valuable informa-
tion about the early days of the university.
The following are exerpts from the 1927
Aucola and the columns in Lodestar (prede-
cessor to today's American magazine):
"Picture ninety acres of woodland as a
background for just three buildings in the
cleared frontage along Nebraska Ave . . .
The nearest store was at Wisconsin and
Nebraska Avenues in what was then
known as Tenleytown. So, if you wanted a
snack at night you had to either be a good
hiker or swipe it from the kitchen."
Lodestar, Summer 1962
"Be it not thought that the class is com-
posed merely of staid intellectual bache-
lors. Romance abounds within its borders.
One member is already married. No less
than a half dozen more have tasted the
nectar of the gods and have found it to be
good for the soul."
junior history, 1927 Aucola
"Life in the Dormitory was where rigid
rules had to first be applied. Here it might
be interesting to note that even that first
year the student body was international (a
girl from Singapore, and from Czechoslo-
vakia and two returned missionaries) . . .
First of all we were required to dress for
dinner. We gathered in the foyer of the
Dorm and all proceeded down to dinner
together. It was served at tables for six with
a hostess, usually a faculty member, for
each table . . .
"... But I think one of the unique cus-
toms instituted that year was that of gather-
ing in the parlor ... at the 10 p.m. bell in
"PJs" for twenty minutes of "letting off
steam" between study and bedtime. It was
one of the vears when the Charleston was
Candid pictures as seen on page 32 of the 1927 Aucola.
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at its height, and hands on shoulders, the
youngest and peppiest would form a
Charleston line that really made the room
rock ..."
Lodestar, Winter 1963
"... when the basketball season ar-
rived, our star suddenly rose. We became a
new sensation in the area with a spectacu-
lar win over C.U. (Catholic University),
Our tenacity was rewarded — we were a
new area college to be reckoned with."
Lodestar, Summer 1962
According to Howard Rash, the business
manager of the 2 927 Aucola, and presently a
minister at the Christ United Methodist
Church in Memphis, Tennessee, getting
the money to put out the first yearbook was
not easy. "I had to appear before the faculty
and convince them and the administration
that we could sell enough ads to supple-
ment the contributions of the seniors and
juniors and the purchase of copies by
members of the student body to pay for
publication costs. We knew we could do it
and we did."
Just about every yearbook at the univer-
sity, including the 1927 Aucola, received at
least some of its funding from advertising.
In the first ad section one can find patron-
age from many of the area businesses, in-
cluding the Dulany-Vernay Company,
printers of the first yearbook, and still an
important company in the Washington
area. An ad for a new barber shop at 4627
Belt Road, that offered all cuts for 50tf,
boasted that it only had "White Barbers,"
evidence that racism was still a significant
force to deal with in American society. In
addition, an ad for W.R. Pumphrey & Sons
Funeral Directors and Embalmers boasts
that it is "Open Day and Night."
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Page 55 of the 1927 Aucola includes a picture of Roland Rice, who later went on to teach at AU, and is
presently on the Board of Trustees.
World Events 1925-27
1925
Nellie Tayloe Ross elected first women
governor in U.S. (Wyoming) . . . John
Scopes convicted and fined for teaching
evolution in a public school in Tennessee
. . . Adolph Hitler publishes Volume I of
Mein Kampf . . .
1926
U.S. Marines dispatched to Nicaragua dur-
ing revolt . . . Gertrude Ederle of U.S. is
first woman to swim English Channel . . .
2927
German economy collapses . . . Trotsky ex-
pelled from Russian Communist Party . . .
Charles A. Lindbergh flies first solo non-
stop flight from New York to Paris . . . "The
Jazz Singer" starring Al Jolson is released,
first talking motion picture . . .
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THE
AUCOL
1935
aymond Wrenn, staff
member of the 1935 Au-
cola (later to become edi-
tor of both the 1937 and
1938 Aucolas) describes
the book as perhaps
"the most erudite col-
lege yearbook ever pro-
duced." The descrip-
tion is fitting. The staff
produced a sophisti-
cated and scholarly
document, to coincide with the continued
growth and sophistication of the universi-
ty. The book is divided into chapters, and
at a quick glance it might appear to be a
textbook. Since the first volume, the Aucola
had continued to grow in size and quality.
Frank Hoadley, editor of the book, later
taught English and journalism at AU, and
has recently retired as director of publish-
ing for American Baptist Churches. He and
the late Worthington Houghton, the busi-
ness manager, both married AU alumnae,
and Houghton once served as an AU
trustee.
The 1935 Aucola was the biggest in AU
history at the time, 172 pages. The book
was printed in a special method popular in
the thirties that alternated between a glos-
sy page with photographs on both sides
and a rough textured page with type on
both sides. Therefore, the pages were
either all copy or all photographs and cap-
tions.
Page 25 of the 1935 Aucola features pictures of Chancellor Gray (namesake of Gray Hall) and Dean Woods
and Dean Brown (Woods-Brown Amphitheatre).
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An interesting characteristic of the 1935
Aucola is its large and diverse organizations
chapter. Included in it is everything from a
45 member debate squad, and several hon-
or societies, to formally dressed men's and
women's glee clubs, with almost 90 mem-
bers between them. There are clubs for
alumni of local high schools pictured, a
band and an orchestra, and several reli-
gious organizations.
In addition, fraternities and sororities
had become immensely popular, drawing
large numbers of students. Phi Mu, a soror-
ity then in its second year at the university,
is the only organization still in existence
today (besides the Aucola/Talon and The
American Eagle, later known as The Eagle),
making it the university's oldest student
organization.
Among the graduates pictured that year
is Ann Henderson, the first women editor
of The American Eagle. Pictured among the
class of 1936 is Stafford Cassell, star of both
the basketball and football teams, who was
later to serve in the university administra-
tion for many years, and who eventually
became the namesake for our present ath-
letic facilities, the Cassell Center.
The ad section encouraged students to
drink Coca-Cola (with the same logo used
today), to patronize Eastman Kodak
Stores, and to "Ride High" and buy a Pon-
tiac from the Flood Motor Co.
Dramatic performances pictured on page 88 of the 2935 Aucola include "Candida" and "The Winter's
Tale."
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Juniors pictured on page 67 of the 1935 Aucola include Frank T. Hoadley and Worthington Houghton, the
editor and business manager of the book.
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Results of a 1935 Aucola poll are featured on page 45.
World Events 1934-35
1934
Adolf Hitler becomes Fuhrer . . . Dionne
sisters, first quintuplets to survive beyond
infancy, born in Canada . . .
1935
Nazis introduce compulsory military ser-
vice . . . Mussolini invades Ethiopia . . .
President Roosevelt opens second phase of
New Deal, calling for social security, better
housing, equitable taxation, and farm as-
sistance . . .
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A U C 0 LA
uring the 1944-45 aca-
demic year, the univer-
sity was deeply in-
volved in the second
World War. Various
types of military train-
ing occured on campus,
and a few buildings
that still stand today
were built as "tempo-
rary structures." The
production of the 1945
Aucola was seen almost as a part of the war
effort. Although materials were scarce, and
good photographers hard to find, the all-
female staff (the university was 98% wom-
en, because the men were in the service)
was able to put out a book.
What follows is the personal memories
of Ruth Capello Cumming, co-editor of the
2945 Aucola:
"Looking back forty years to 1944-45,
American University-College of Liberal
Arts was dominated by one fact — that it
was war time — the height of World War II.
"Our student body was small — greatly
diminished by an almost total lack of men
students. Even though few in number, we
were a very caring supportive college fami-
ly. Nearly everyone knew everybody else in
one's class. Class sizes were small, com-
munication was good, and our professors
really got to know us.
"For a time, almost all of the Uptown
campus was taken over by Red Cross per-
sonnel training to go overseas. And naval
personnel (including WAVEs), at nearby
Mt. Vernon Seminary for Girls, ate their
meals in the basement cafeteria of Mary
Graydon Hall. These special arrangements
brought a few celebrities to campus —
movie star Madeline Carroll was a Red
Cross trainee, and even Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt was seen striding across campus
one Saturday morning to address a class of
trainees.
GIRLS' S P 0 R I S
Two rather joyous tennis players on page 78 of the 3945 Aucola.
5S
J U N
0 R S
"Being a college in Washington, D.C.,
AU participated in events along with the
embassies of foreign nations. Such was
"International Student's Day" at the
Czechoslovakian Embassy (where we sang
their anthem in Czech!). We also took part
in a service honoring Korea, singing their
national anthem in Korean. We had ex-
change students from mainland Europe.
"As far as the students were concerned,
our Uptown campus consisted of Hurst
Hall, Mary Graydon Hall, Battelle Memo-
rial (the library and business offices) and
the gymnasium, with one or two small
wooden structures used for music instruc-
tion, etc. The rest of the buildings were
used by other groups. Chapel was held in
Metropolitan Memorial Methodist Church
each week.
"Although this was years before the time
of ERA — this was a woman-dominated
campus — but hardly from choice. (Any
man on campus could have had most any
job he chose.) Campus activities showed
this:
"There was an all-women's Chorus, sup-
plemented by five men when singing as a
Chapel Choir.
"In athletics, the "A" Club — all girls —
hada sports program that included softball,
badminton, basketball, tennis, and swim-
ming (in the pool of WAVE'S Barracks D!).
However, we did have a men's basketball
team (made up of men from the F Street
campus downtown) which managed to
win the first Mason-Dixon Conference
title!
"Sororities were booming, with one very
small fraternity. Sorority women were
busy with war projects — buying war
stamps, giving books for the Merchant
Marine, rolling bandages, hosting service-
men's parties, besides participating in
their usual campus-oriented activities.
"In drama, Mary Frances Miller man-
aged to work miracles — using faculty
Ruth Capello (dimming) is pictured on page 39 of the 1945 Aucola.
59
members for male roles. James McLain
came to the rescue in more than one play.
(Especially notable was his portrayal of Jim
in "I am Looking for an American," a poig-
nant war story by Filipino playwright
Severino Monthano.) In other trouser
roles she used women very effectively.
Even Shakespeare fared well with women
taking all parts.
"The Eagle was presided over by Ed
Stern and his slaves (guess who?). Real
authority there! His office, mostly any-
where, finally settled in the secretarial sci-
ence room.
"As for the Aucola, it needed two women
to run it, Ruth Capello and Anne Tram-
mell. As usual, funds were tight and paper
scarce, and we struggled with all kinds of
economies. But we did manage to get new
pictures taken of the university buildings
and people — a real move forward. (The
previous year we used all the old cuts we
could find. J Mr. Benson, our photographer,
printer, and engraver, was a tower of
strength and knowledge, and real help
came from Peter Stapay of the Publications
Board. The co-editor's father, James Capel-
lo, helped in many emergencies. The staff,
though few, worked very hard, and despite
the usual crises, came through on time —
the 2945 Aucola was a reality!
"How did we feel about it? Back in June
of 1945 we looked upon it as a kind of
miracle. Producing the 1945 Aucola, under
wartime conditions and restrictions, was
only due to the determination and dedica-
tion of us all."
ALPHA CHI OMEGA
founded 1937
Pounded 1885
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The sisters of the Alpha Chi Omega sorority on page 90 of the 1945 Aucola.
60
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Candids on page 60 of the 2945 Aucola.
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World Events
1944-1945
2944
G.I. Bill of Rights enacted . . . International
Monetary Fund and World Bank created
. . . Dumbarton Oaks Conference with
U.S., Britain and U.S.S.R. held to propose
establishment of the United Nations . . .
2945
United Nations officially established . . .
President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies dur-
ing record fourth term . . . Germany sur-
renders . . . Potsdam Conference with
President Truman, Churchill and Stalin
held . . . Japan surrenders . . .
61
igher education, and in-
deed all education,
along with the entire
American way of life,
has been threatened by
a mighty force. But
mightier than commu-
nism, mightier than ter-
rorism, are the forces of
God and democra-
cy ..."
Introduction,
2955 Aucola
On this rather patriotic note, the reader
starts his journey through the 1955 Aucola.
From the abstract representation of the
American flag wrapped around the cover,
to the picture of the Washington Monu-
ment with a quotation from Franklin D.
Roosevelt on the last page, one can't help
but notice the highly patriotic tone of the
book. The staff obviously took the fact that
they were at The American University very
seriously.
The AU of the 1954-55 academic year
was clearly different from the AU of today.
World War II had ended a decade earlier,
and the country was in the middle of a
prosperous era. Traditional values were in
vogue, and everything at AU was as "it
should be:" buildings were going up left
and right, Greek organizations were ex-
periencing record pledge classes, the
Eagles were fighting to defend AU's record,
with plenty of fans supporting them, and
Homecoming was the social event of the
season.
For the present day observer, the most
entertaining part of the book is the
"Beauties and Queens" section. The sec-
tion is filled with formal portraits of the
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Page 138 of the 3955 Aucola includes a senior portrait of editor Patricia Shelhamer.
62
Settif Potter
..,,/.. .„,.,r, Runny Hop Queen
queens for the various social events and
Greek organizations. They include the
Homecoming Queen, the Apple Blossom
Princess, the Sophomore Bunny Hop
Queen, the McCabe Hall Sweetheart
(McCabe was a men's dormitory at the
time), the Phi Sigma Kappa Moonlight
Girl and Alpha Sigma Phi's Dream Girl.
Unlike the situation of many universi-
ties at the time, the student body at AU
included not only a wide variety of inter-
national students, but also had a small rep-
resentation of black students. Approx-
imately 90% of the seniors pictured are
from the Washington D.C., area. The most
popular areas for students to major in in-
cluded political science, economics, mu-
sic and business administration.
1955 marked the last year the book was
called the Aucola. During the 1955-56 aca-
demic year, Lee Levy was chosen as editor,
and she decided that since the College of
Arts and Sciences was no longer the Col-
lege of Liberal Arts, and since there were
new undergraduate colleges at AU by then,
Aucola was no longer an appropriate name.
Rather than change Aucola to "Aucas," or
some other acronym, they chose to come
up with something completely new. Late
one evening after swimming practice, Levy
and a few other staff members were sitting
around with swimming coach Bob Frailey
trying to come up with a name. It was
Frailey that came up with "talon," the claw
of AU's mascot, the eagle. The 1956 Talon
was born.
Incidentally, Bob Frailey is still with the
university, and presently serves as director
of the Department of Athletics and chair of
the Department of Physical Education.
Page 51 of the 2955 Aucola features Betty Porter, one the beauties in the "Beauties and Queens" section
63
WMECTM1MC
Homecoming activities on page 104 of the 1955 Aucola.
64 h i
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World Events 1954-55
1954
Nautilus, first atomic submarine launched
. . . U.S. Supreme Court unanimously bans
racial segregation in public schools . . .
West Germany granted sovereignty, admit-
ted to Northern Atlantic Treaty Organiza-
tion (NATO) ... Dr. Jonas Salk starts in-
noculating children against polio . . .
2955
Warsaw Pact, east European mutual de-
fense agreement is signed . . . Argentina
ousts Peron . . . Rev. Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. leads black boycott of Montgomery
Alabama bus system . . .
AU's Cheerleaders as seen on page 65 of the 2955 Aucola.
65
The Talon
1965
n 1965, AU was in a
state of transition. Tra-
ditional values were
still the norm, but the
country was beginning
to wake up to the hor-
rors of racial discrimi-
nation and the Vietnam
War. Protests were be-
coming more the rule
than the exception, and
AU students were
among those leading the young people of
the sixties into one of the most controver-
sial eras in U.S. history. Only two years
earlier AU was the site of President John F.
Kennedy's historic speech on nuclear
weapons, and within the next three years,
it was to become a hotbed for student activ-
ism. As described below by 1965 Talon edi-
tor Penny Pagano, now of the Washington
Bureau of the Los Angeles Times, the year-
book of 1965 was still traditionally struc-
tured, but the influences of the new era
were apparent.
"As I pulled a copy of my 1965 Talon from
a bookshelf, it seemed impossible that 20
years could have vanished since a group of
excited students sat on a small mountain of
cartons in Mary Graydon Center passing
out new yearbooks. 'Where have all the
years and faces gone?' I think to myself as I
flip the burgandy cover with its gold uni-
versity seal. The pages are filled with warm
memories of friends still in touch and
curiosity of others long dispersed to jobs,
families, and lives.
"So much has happened to the world,
the nation, and the university since 1965.
In that year, Lyndon Johnson was inaugu-
rated for a full term and set forth his Great
Society goals. (A mock election on campus
the previous fall showed 1 ,263 for Johnson
and 308 votes for Barry Goldwater.J Two
astronauts spent eight days in space. Win-
ston Churchill died as did the poet T.S.
Eliot. The Justice Department filed the first
federal school desegregation suits under
the 1964 Civil Rights Act. In Colorado, 105
cadets resigned from the Air Force
Academy for their parts in a scandal in-
volving cheating with stolen test papers.
The Administration sent Congress a
budget proposal for $99.7 billion for the
new fiscal year.
"As I look at AU today, it too is a far
different place. New buildings have given
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The cafeteria in the basement of Mary Graydon Center as it appears on page 42 of the 1965 Talon.
66
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Crew
SEASON SCHEDULE
Amherst College
Purdue
Home
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April
May
Marietta College Home
Grimaldi Cup Away
Drexel Institute oi Technology Phila.
George Washington University
Iona College
Naval Academy (Lightweight). Anapolis
Howard University (Heavyweight)
LaSalle College Phila.
Washington Regatta Home
Georgetown University
George Washington University
Howard University
Dad Vail Regatta Phila.
A strong tea:
a good crop of new met the 1965 season.
Veterans from last yea: .. captain; Tom
Locke, Chuck Greene. Bob Angle. Dart Adkins. Vince
Celtmeks. Garlrr : rid Tom Brown.
The '■■ a recognized
University sport, is ag;: .-. -rrtion of Coach
Curt Adkins. The Coach has the trying chore of making
sure the oarsmen are on the waters ol the Potomac at
6 A.M. !ance of
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crew team.
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AU had an active crew team in the 60's, pictured here on page 216 of the 1965 Talon.
the campus a whole new appearance; long
gone are the temporary buildings reminis-
cent of World War II. As a student then, the
campus seemed smaller. Day-to-day life
involved moving between the dormitories,
the classroom buildings, the old library,
and Mary Graydon Center.
"Women had dorm curfews then, and
were reprimanded when they abused
them. Sororities and fraternities played a
visible role in campus life with the Sig
Olympics, Songfest, and a Christmas din-
ner for area orphans.
"For the most part, many AU students
busied themselves on campus with stu-
dent government, clubs, and organiza-
tions, sports events like baseball and crew,
and campus activities such as Homecom-
ing and Parent's Weekend, AU's second
international turtle race, with entries from
57 colleges, a Sadie Hawkins weekend
with a concert by the Smothers Brothers.
And there were more serious activities like
the College Bowl — modeled from a TV
show — where teams of students competed
to answer questions.
"The Student Senate dealt with a variety
of campus issues including complaints
about poor cafeteria food, and a ban on cars
for on-campus juniors, and it tried and
failed to get liquor served at the junior-
senior prom.
"At the same time, students' concerns
about academic freedom were growing.
But there appeared to be no universal
malaise on campus. The issues that gener-
ated so much tension and unrest on college
campuses across the country — academic
freedom, civil rights and Vietnam — were
just beginning to take hold. A paragraph in
the 1965 Talon noted that 'massive student
demonstrations at Berkeley have acted as a
catalyst to unseat latent student unrest and
discontent with higher education . . . Class-
rooms and quadrangles have become
forums for challenges of academic freedom
for the student and in some cases for the
professor.'
"Some of us also found time to work on
the Talon in a tiny third floor office in Mary
Graydon Center. There were late nights
preparing copy, reams of paper and carbon
paper to deal with, and forages through
drawers and files for a special picture. But
there was also a special comradery among
all of us who worked on the various stu-
dent publications.
67
"As I reach the final pages of the 1965
Talon, and the senior photos, I notice that
the hairstyles seem a bit dated. Still, I think
I'd recognize a lot of those faces if I saw
them today. In fact, I bumped into a class-
mate here in a restaurant recently. We both
stared for a moment as we placed each
other in our past. It was AU. We laughed,
and made plans to have lunch. We'll chat
about what's happened to both of us, quiz
each other about where people are, recall
teachers and classes and probably have a
laugh or two about funny things that hap-
pened in those years when the campus was
our home. And no doubt, we'll have a fond
comment about AU, which helped prepare
us for a place and a role in the changing
world."
By the late sixties, the Talon finally broke
with all traditions and worked to produce
more of a piece of art than a memory book.
Stephanie Drea, editor of both the 1967 and
1968 Talons was primarily responsible for
the changes. As the first design major to
edit the Talon (past editors had usually
been journalism or literature majors), Drea
was able to compile stories in the form of
abstract poetry, headlines from songs by
Simon and Garfunkel, and some rather
psychedelic graphics to produce two very
"artsy" yearbooks. At a time when photog-
raphy was still considered a form of docu-
mentation, Drea treated photography in
the 1967 and 1968 Talons as an art form, a
trend that wasn't popularized until the
seventies.
Drea, who is now director of public
affairs for the National Association of
Counties, reports that "the artistic format
of the book allowed us to tap into the
tremendous creative outlet at the universi-
ty .. . We has a tremendous number of
creative photographers and good writers
available."
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1965 Talon editor Priscilla (Penny) Pagano is pictured on page 255 of the book.
MOCK ELECTION
In addition to breaking away from the
traditional format, the 1968 Talon is the
only other university yearbook in the
country, besides the 1985 Talon, to include
advertisements within the actual text of
the book. Drea's motivations for doing this
are similar to the reason the 1985 Talon has
done it, to make it easier to sell ads. "By the
time people get to the end of the book
(where the ads normally are) they don't
really feel like reading ads."
BARRY
Political activism illustrated on page 29 of the 2965 Talon.
World Events 1964-65
2964
Jack Ruby convicted of murder in slaying
of Lee Harvey Oswald, conviction later re-
versed, Ruby dies before second trial . . .
President's Commission on the Assassina-
tion of President John F. Kennedy issues
Warren Report concluding that Lee Harvey
Oswald acted alone . . .
1965
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and
thousands of blacks arrested in Alabama
while demonstrating against voter registra-
tion rules . . . Medicare program begins . . .
riots in Watts section of Los Angeles . . .
69
1975 Toil on
n the early 1970s, the
Talon continued to break
traditions. The 2975 Talon
came at the end of this
era, and is among the
most successful of those
with the "anything to be
different" philosophy.
David Adler, editor of
the 2975 Talon, and now
editorial director of
Washington Dossier maga-
zine, reports "We were trying to be as bizarre
as possible ... it was an era of trying to shock
people."
One can't help but feel that Adler and his
staff were successful just by looking at the
silver metallic cover of the book. Adler says "it
kind of represents the time, just as disco was
becoming popular." When asked to describe
the goal of the staff, Adler says, "We were
trying to give a total audio-visual presenta-
tion." Examples of this approach include the
45-speed record the staff produced and in-
cluded inside the back cover of each book; the
"scratch 'n sniff" panels they placed in the
book; and the use of handwritten headlines,
instead of having them typeset.
Here are some excerpts from the two songs
on the record found in the 2975 Talon:
"We're Not Going to Pay"
Dear Mom and Dad,
How are you?
I'm dropping you a line.
I know that it's a shocker,
Because it's the first time.
But I've got some news for you,
I know it isn't nice,
But sell the car and rent the house,
AU has raised its price,
(chorus)
So, we're not going to pay,
What are we paying for?
Last year they got 8 percent,
Now they want 11 more.
We won't stand by,
Watching the tuition soar.
The price is up, the standards down,
We can't afford to stay around . . .
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70
Candid pictures on page 189 of the 1975 Talon.
page lH'i
"Once There Was a Tavern"
Once upon a time there was a tavern,
Located in the back of MGC.
We didn't go to get drunk or to party,
We went because we were just plain
horny.
Those were the days my friend,
Back at American,
Where work came always after play.
The girls were always whores,
Two out of three were whores,
But it's alright, 'cause half the guys
were gays . . .
During the seventies, as mentioned in
the first song, academic standards dropped
at the university. AU was also going
through some financially difficult times,
and there were several years of enormous
tuition hikes, with corresponding anti-hike
demonstrations.
Now that academic standards are the
highest they've been in the history of the
university, and the financial pressures
seem to have easied, it is sometimes diffi-
cult to relate to this era. Yet it is an impor-
tant era none the less. The activism of the
late sixties turned into the apathy of the
late seventies, and the students were not
always enthusiastic about their experience
at AU.
Drugs were very popular, as was hard
rock music. Concerts on campus during
the 1974-75 academic year included The
Climax Blues Band and Bruce Springsteen.
Speakers sponsored by the Kennedy Politi-
cal Union included Former Israeli Defense
Minister Moshe Dayan and Senator Walter
Mondale. Ralph Nader also spoke on
campus.
The big news of the year occurred when
a small plane flying over campus struck the
broadcast tower and crashed behind the
President's house. Pieces of the plane
were spread all over campus, and some
suspect that if the plane hadn't first hit the
tower, it would have crashed into Ander-
son Hall.
71
The essentials of the "AU-Survival Kit" on page 142 of the 2975 Talon.
72
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World Events 1974-75
2974
Patricia Hearst, daughter of publisher Ran-
dolph Hearst, kidnapped by Symbionese
Liberation Army . . . President Richard M.
Nixon resigns after Watergate break-in
controversy . . . Gerald R. Ford becomes
president, and grants Nixon full par-
don . . .
1975
Various members of the Nixon administra-
tion found guilty of Watergate cover-up,
some are sentenced to terms in jail . . .
President Ford escapes two assassination
attempts . . . Patricia Hearst apprehended
by FBI.
Page 78 of the 2975 Talon includes the senior portrait of editor David Adler.
73
Historical Dateline
(Research courtesy of the University Archives
and the University Publications and Printing
Office.)
ew people in the AU community are
aware that we have a long and rich history.
What follows is a short historical dateline
of the major events in the history of The
American University.
1889 Seeking to fulfill George Washing-
ton's dream of a national university in the
nation's capital, Methodist Bishop John
Fletcher Hurst buys some ninety acres of
farm land overlooking Washington for
$100,000, using $1,000 of his own money
as down payment. He envisions a marble
"city set upon a hill," a nonparochial, non-
sectarian university attracting the nation's
graduate students and addressing the na-
tion's needs . . .
2893 The American University is chartered
by an Act of Congress . . .
1896 The gavel George Washington used in
laying the cornerstone for the Capitol is
used to lay the cornerstone of the first uni-
versity building on campus, the College of
History, later renamed Hurst Hall . . .
1898 Hurst shows President McKinley
Irving Ives Cobb's marvelously ambitious
watercolor plan of the university campus
and asks him to serve as a Trustee of the
university. The president agrees provided
the university's next building is dedicated
to his native state, Ohio . . .
1901 President McKinley is assassinated
eight days before he is to lay the corner-
stone for the university's second building,
the Ohio Hall of Government. He had
helped raise funds for it and had offered to
serve as dean when his term of office as
president expired . . .
1902 President Theodore Roosevelt, also a
Trustee, lays the cornerstone of the McKin-
ley Memorial Ohio Hall of Government,
renamed as a memorial to the fallen presi-
dent . . . Hurst has raised half a million
dollars, and the university's assets are
valued at $2 million, the land having
appreciated 900 percent . . .
1914 The university admits its first class,
28 graduate students, with one faculty
member. President Wilson speaks at the
Opening Day ceremony . . .
1917 The Board of Trustees contributes to
the war effort by offering the campus to the
U.S. government, which finishes the in-
terior of McKinley Hall. The university va-
cates the campus during the war, transfer-
ring classes downtown . . .
2920 The university opens graduate
schools downtown at 19th and F Streets.
NW, to provide evening courses to federal
employees . . .
2922 President Warren G. Harding speaks
at Seventh Commencement . . .
2922 Vice-President Calvin Coolidge, later
the president, speaks at Eighth Commence-
ment . . .
2925 The Undergraduate school, the Col-
lege of Liberal Arts, later renamed the Col-
lege of Arts and Sciences, is established at
the Uptown campus. Completing the con-
struction of a building begun by the federal
government during the war, the university
opens on the quad next to McKinley a
women's residence hall, renamed Mary
Graydon Hall in 1946 and Mary Graydon
Center in 1959, when it ceased to provide
student housing. Mary Graydon, a quiet
advocate of women's rights, gave half a
million dollars to the university over the
years . . . The power plant and the Chan-
cellor's (i.e., the president's) house are
completed the same year. After renovation,
the latter becomes an administration
building in 1958 and is later known as the
President's Building . . .
2926 The university opens a building, later
named Clendenen Hall for Mary Graydon's
grandfather, with a gymnasium, a theatre
and an assembly hall . . . On the quad next
to Mary Graydon, the Battelle Memorial
Library is completed. (John) Gordon Bat-
telle gave $100,000 to the university for
this memorial to his family . . .
2930 The first men's dormitory, Hamilton
House, opens. It was named in honor of
two chancellors who were brothers . . .
Thus the main campus has administrative
offices, classrooms, a library, a gymnasium,
a theatre, an assembly hall and residence
halls for men and for women . . . Fall en-
rollment is 530 and 81 degrees, graduate
74
and bachelor's, are awarded . . .
1934 President Franklin D. Roosevelt
attends inauguration of Joseph MM. Gray
as AU's Chancellor . . .
2943 During the second World War, the
university again offers the use of the cam-
pus to the U.S. government. For the
WAVEs living on campus, the navy builds
a temporary recreation center, with a gym-
nasium, a pool, bolwing alleys and an au-
ditorioum . . .
1946 The university takes over the WAVE
recreation center and names it the Leonard
Student Center, later renaming it the Cas-
sell Center, in honor of Stafford Cassell,
former coach and vice president of the uni-
versity . . . Hurst Hall classrooms are
reopened . . . For returning veterans, the
university opens housing for married stu-
dents . . . Fall enrollment is 3,578, more
than double that of 1941, and 130 degrees
are awarded
1949 The Washington College of Law
merges with The American University.
The law school had been founded as a
coeducational school in 1896 by two early
feminists, Ellen Spencer Mussey and
Emma M. Gillett . . .
1954 The radio/television building
opens . . .
2955 The new School of Business Adminis-
tration moves into McKinley Hall . . . Ro-
per and Clark residence halls open. They
and later dormitories are funded by gov-
ernment bonds . . .
2957 The first Tompkins addition to the
Battelle Memorial Library is built, fi-
nanced through a foundation established
by Charles H. Tomkins and his wife Lida R.
Tomkins, prominent builders and civic ben-
efactors . . . Gray and McCabe residence
halls open . . . The School of Government
and Public Affairs is established . . .
2958 The School of International Service
opens in its new building. The school was
established at the urging of President
Eisenhower, who wanted more profes-
sionally educated civil servants and who
had spoken at the joint ceremonies for
ground breaking and commencement . . .
The Center for Technology and Adminis-
tration is established . . .
2959 Hughes Hall, a dormitory, opens . . .
2960 Senator John F. Kennedy gives cam-
paign address on campus prior to being
elected president . . . Asbury building is
completed . . .
2962 The Watkins Art Building and
McDowell dormitory open . . .
2963 President John F. Kennedy returns to
campus to give forty-ninth commence-
ment address. His speech is concerning
nuclear arms testing, and is considered one
of his most important addresses . . .
2963 Letts Hall, a dormitory, is com-
pleted . . .
2964 The John Sherman Myers Law Build-
ing, on the quad next to Battelle, the Pro-
vost's Residence off campus, and a second
addition to Battelle are completed . . .
2965 The quad is nearly closed by com-
pletion of the Kay Spiritual Life Center,
the result of a commitment of $280,000 by
the family of Abraham L. Kay . . . The Lucy
Webb Hayes School of Nursing and the
College of Continuing Education are estab-
lished, the latter becoming the Division of
Continuing Education in 1976 . . .
2966 The university opens Anderson Hall,
a dormitory named in honor of its eighth
president. Since 1952, Hurst Anderson has
been the driving force behind a major con-
struction and renovation program which
ultimately results in a total of twenty new
buildings and six additions during his six-
teen years in office . . . The Kreeger Music
Building opens, the bulk of the funds re-
quired provided by David Lloyd Kreeger,
patron of the arts . . . The growth of the
university is such that of all the degrees it
has ever conferred, 40 percent were
awarded in the previous five and 63 per-
cent in the previous ten years. Between
1952 and 1965, fall enrollment doubled, to
12,850 . . .
2967 Beeghly Chemistry Building opens,
the principle donors being Leon A. Beegh-
ly, and his wife, Mabel Snyder Beeghly . . ,
A second addition to Asbury is finished
and Leonard Hall, a dormitory, is opened
. . . Roper, Clark, Gray and McCabe resi-
dence halls have been converted for use
as faculty offices with seminar rooms . . .
1968 The New Lecture Hall, closing the
northwest side of the quad, and an addi-
tion to Mary Graydon Center are opened . . .
2969 With the completion of the Ward Cir-
cle Building, closing the southeast side of
the quad, the School of Government and
Public Administration is housed on cam-
pus and the downtown campus is closed . . .
2972 The College of Public Affairs is estab-
lished, incorporating the School of Gov-
ernment and Public Administration, the
School of International Service, the Center
for the Administration of Justice (renamed
the School of Justice in 1978), and the Cen-
ter for Technology and Administration. It
is renamed the College of Public and Inter-
national Affairs in 1979 . . .
1978 Former President Gerald R. Ford
speakes in Edwin A. Mooers Moot Court
Room in the Myers Building . . .
2979 The Jack I. and Dorothy G. Bender
Library and Learning Resource Center
opens, housing nearly 600,000 volumes.
The Bender Foundation gave $500,000 to-
ward its construction . . . The business
school is renamed the Kogod College of
Business Administration following a gift of
$500,000 from Robert P. Kogod and Arlene
R. Kogod, the former a graduate of the
school . . .
1984 The university announces the upcom-
ing building of the Adnan Khashoggi Cen-
ter, with $5 million of the $19 million to
build the sports and convocation center
coming from Khashoggi, a Saudi Arabian
billionaire.
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Higher academic
achievement,
better SAT's,
the ground-
breaking for a
new sports and
convocation
center and the
addition of the
former Immaculata campus indicate that
things are looking up for the university that
was once called "Camp AU" by its own
students.
As the administration continues its
plans to improve campus facilities,
academic standards and the university's
overall reputation, many graduating
seniors are remembering their freshman
year, 1981. Those of us who enrolled in '81
recall the general mood of students attend-
ing the university: the tension created by
the 18% tuition and housing fee hike,
union threats to strike, the later firing of
many university housekeeping and
maintenance employees, and the lack of
communication between the students and
the administration. We watched friends
who could not afford to study at AU pack
their bags and head home. While these
problems directly affected only part of the
AU population, the tension was apparent
throughout the university community.
Now, four years later, AU is experienc-
ing a visible metamorphosis: the campus
has undergone a great deal of construction,
the staff appears to be stable and more
permanent and the students seem more
financially secure. The latter is less likely
due to a better economic situation in the
U.S., than it is due to the fact that the uni-
versity is recruiting students with better
high school records.
Whether or not we believe the system is
fair, students whose families have more
money enjoy greater learning opportuni-
ties and may earn better grades as a result.
Do not, however, place the burden of this
unfortunate situation on President Be-
rendzen and his administration, as we did
in '81. The cost of attending AU is compa-
rable to any other private university in the
D.C. metropolitan area, and, as angry as
students and their parents were four years
ago, the tuition increase seems to have
been the only immediate solution to keep
the university afloat.
The university is, by no means, perfect.
We still lack the necessary facilities
and the "Harvard on the Potomac" image
we had hoped for, but to hear members of
the last two freshman classes speak, one
would never suspect that this university is
not the place to be. Student enthusiasm is
increasing, as well as student involvement
with campus organizations. The Student
Confederation, Student Union Board, Ken-
nedy Political Union and other student
groups have provided AU with an array of
entertainment including tavern concerts,
speeches by nationally recognized politi-
cal figures, and panel discussions with
government heads and members of the
communication media.
Where else, but in Washington, can stu-
dents benefit from such a diverse adjunct
faculty, made up of statesmen, media pro-
fessionals, authors, artists and business ex-
ecutives from D.C. and throughout the na-
tion?
Much of AU's recent success can be-
attributed to its students. While the
administration has made serious efforts to
increase the visibility and popularity of the
university, the students have also partici-
pated in improving the AU image. Grad-
uating seniors this year can leave know-
ing that their work here has affected both
the competitive status of the school and the
university's more positive social and
academic environment.
Ashley Pound
1985 Talon senior contributing editor
. . . AU is
experiencing a visible
metamorphosis: the
campus has undergone
a great deal of
construction, the staff
appears to be stable
and more permanent
and the students seem
more financially
secure . . .
81
AU85
n October 24,
1980, the Board of
Trustees
approved AU85, a
five year plan for
the reform and
development of
AU. The primary
objective of this
plan is to bring a stronger sense of com-
munity, higher academic standards and in-
stitutional distinction.
These objectives are to be realized
through sweeping changes in seven differ-
ent aspects of the university. They in-
clude: academic programs, faculty, stu-
dents, administrative services, facilities,
finances and institutional advancement.
As AU president Richard Berendzen puts
it, "It is an effort to realize our full poten-
tial, to highlight and strengthen the pro-
grams and characteristics that make us
unique, and to fulfill our extraordinary
mission."
As AU85 draws to a close, it is necessary
to evaluate the progress that has been
made. In the area of academic programs,
AU85 calls for the establishment of a
General Education Program based on the
theme "America in An Interdependent
World," along with the addition of a pro-
gram of experimental and career education.
Both programs are now extremely suc-
cessful.
AU85 also proposed the improvement of
international programs, as well as upgrad-
ing Master's and Doctoral tracts. Again,
there is evidence that progress has been
made in these areas.
For faculty, AU85 proposes an increase
in salaries, the encouragement of job
mobility and the reevaluation of the
Affirmative Action program. Other speci-
fic changes AU85 cites include the forma-
tion of an ad hoc committee on research
programs and the revision of the faculty
manual. Many of these goals, such as facul-
ty salary increases, have been achieved.
Yet these changes are not easily im-
plemented. The university administration
has been criticized for cut backs in faculty
positions and "across the board" salary in-
creases. University provost Milton Green-
berg acknowledges this criticism; as he
says, "We have had to do a lot of things that
were distasteful."
In the area of increasing the academic
caliber of AU's student body, the admin-
istration has been undeniably successful.
This goal has been reached through a rise
in admissions standards, an increase in
student support services, and financial
aid. AU85 also seeks to improve the sense
of community in the student body, some-
thing many have noted has changed greatly
at AU.
To improve administrative services,
AU85 calls for a decrease in the staff attri-
tion rate, with a converse increase in facul-
ty morale and occupational satisfaction.
Yet these reforms can only be assessed af-
ter AU85 has been entirely reviewed.
The objective of AU85 proposals con-
cerning university facilities is to provide
maintenance for existing facilities and to
prepare AU for future construction of addi-
tional facilities, including a sports/
convocation center, a new classroom/
science building and a theatre facility. As
we all know, the sports/convocation facil-
ity, in the form of the Khashoggi Center, is
on its way. Proposals are still being consid-
ered for more science and theatre space,
but there is talk that the soon to be acquired
Immaculata campus will help make these
AU85 goals a reality.
The topic of finances is another essential
part of AU85, since the successful imple-
mentation of the AU85 proposals depends
upon the financial situation of the uni-
versity. Consequently, AU85 calls for mul-
ti-year budgeting, better allocation of re-
sources, achievement of financial equilib-
rium and an increase in the university's
endowment. Progress has been made in all
of these areas, yet some have seen a higher
degree of success than others. Still the uni-
versity is on much stronger footings than
only five years ago.
Finally, AU85 calls for AU to reach a
higher degree of institutional advance-
ment. The university's recruiting program
has been refined, and the Office of Uni-
versity Relations, responsible for the pub-
lic image of the university, has been greatly
strengthened. Some feel AU is enjoying a
best public image it has had in its history.
Considering the wide range of problems
identified in AU85, and the extensive-
ness of the plan, it is surprising to say that
most of the reforms and changes have been
successfully completed. Not every goal has
been met, but the plan gave the university a
direction, when it neededone most. That is
perhaps its biggest success.
Now that AU85 is drawing to a close
(President Berendzen reports that end
of the 1985-86 academic year is the most
likely time), the administration is current-
ly working on the next plan — AU100.
Similar to AU85, AU100 will become a set
of guidelines for the continued improve-
ment of AU, and will take the university to
its centennial in 1993. There are numerous
improvements to be made and problems to
be solved, but one can only hope that with
the implementation of plans such as AU85
and AU100 that these problems will be-
come fewer and farther between.
Brad Gretter
1985 Talon business manager
While the university administration
works up its AU100, the editors of
the 1985 Talon have compiled a little
AU100 of our own. These are things,
some serious, some not, that we think
AU needs. See if you agree:
— complete, professional theatre
facilities
— an NCAA championship (the soccer
team looks like it's the most likely at
present)
— parking
— student media organizations
independent from the SC
— divestment from South Africa
— blond, nordic men (the suggestion of
our red-head photography editor)
— the restoration of the Hurst and
McKinley buildings to their original
decorating scheme
— more school spirit
— nautilus training equipment
— color photography laboratories
— world peace (okay, so it's not related
to AU, but we're idealists)
— one copy of AU's yearbook provided
free to each member of the university
community.
83
THE ADNAN
KHASHOGGI
CENTER
sports and con-
vocation center
on campus is
closer to being a
reality than it
was a year ago.
In the spring of
1984, Saudi
Arabian bil-
| lionaire and AU trustee Adnan Khashoggi
| pledged five million dollars towards the
| building of the center and made the idea of
§ such a complex economically feasible. The
| target completion date is late 1986 or early
| 1987.
I During the year, neighborhood groups
3 threatened to defeat the Khashoggi center
| proposal in zoning board hearings because
.c of concerns about damage to the neighbor-
hood due to the possibility of increased
traffic with the new center. AU came to an
agreement with its neighbors, limiting off-
campus ticket sales for Monday through
Thursday events to 1,570, eliminating park-
ing fees at its lots one hour before an event
and establishing a joint AU-neighborhood
commission to resolve future disputes.
„ The final approval for construction came
a in April when the Board of Zoning Adjust-
q ment approved an expansion of the Neb-
f raska Avenue parking lot.
| "For more than four decades the uni-
| versify has needed a comprehensive sports
« and convocation center. It now will have
= such a center," said president Richard Be-
1 rendzen when the center was announced
I in April, 1984.
| ' I 'he 100,000 square foot structure will
I J. have a 4,500 person seating capacity
for home basketball games and a 6,000 per-
son capacity for other events in the main
arena. Named in honor of Khashoggi, the
center will be located behind Mary
Graydon Center, extending to where the
tennis courts are located. The main road
running through campus will be re-routed
after Clendenen Gymnasium is torn down
(see story, page 86). The lost parking
spaces due to the elimination of the Asbury
parking lot will be made up with the addi-
tion of 200 spaces in the Nebraska Avenue
lot.
Besides the main sports arena, the center
will include an eight-lane, twenty-five
meter swimming pool, with a separate div-
ing well, five racquetball courts, jogging
and weightlifting facilities. Also included
will be two locker rooms and the offices of
the Department of Athletics. A 425 car
parking garage and a series of shops, in-
cluding the campus store and a bank, are
scheduled to be included. The garage will
be built in between the center and MGC,
camouflaging it on three sides.
"Located physically at the center of the
campus, the building literally will be the
center ... It will benefit not only the uni-
versity's students, faculty and staff but also
its alumni," according to Berendzen.
The main attraction of the center will be
a permanent home on campus for
athletic teams, especially the men's and
women's basketball teams. Recruits are
turned off by our present basketball arena,
Fort Myer, because of its location in Virgi-
nia and its run-down condition.
"If you are a good basketball player, and
you are looking for a place to go to college,
you would naturally want to go some-
where that has a first class facility," says
vice president for finance and treasurer
Don Myers.
The center is expected to boost all sports
programs on campus making sports a
greater priority for AU.
The center will also help bring big name
speakers and top bands to the school, cam-
pus leaders say.
"I think the Khashoggi complex, with a
6,000 person seating capacity, will serve as
a medium type venue to help attract more
entertainers to the area," says 1984-85 Stu-
dent Union Board chair Andy Gershon.
The university will pay dearly for what it
finally receives. Vice president for de-
velopment and planning Don Triezenberg
says the estimated cost for the three struc-
tures comprising the complex is approx-
imately $19,000,000 ($11,600,000 for the
center, $3,900,000 each for the parking gar-
age and adjunct services building.)
Triezenberg says the university has re-
ceived the majority of the $14 million (in
addition to the $5 million from Khashoggi)
in gifts from trustees, parents and alumni.
Additional gifts have come from friends of
the university, corporations and founda-
tions.
University officials say these gifts and
revenues from the facility — parking
and adjunct services — will totally pay for
the center. They say the center will be built
without having to draw on the university's
general operating budget.
Major donors have had portions of the
facility named after them. The sports arena
has been named the Bender Arena, in hon-
or of donor Howard Bender, and the swim-
ming complex is named the Reeves Aqua-
tic Center, in honor of the late John Mercer
Reeves.
The promise to upgrade sports and other
facilities is not being made for the first
time. Several other groundbreakings for
sports facilities have been held in AU's
history. The idea of a modern facility on
campus was first raised in 1947.
AU staff and student leaders say the cen-
ter will not only drastically improve the
nature of facilities on campus, but will also
help boost school spirit. Many students are
doubtful, but hopeful, that the long-
awaited sports center will be completed on
time, if it is indeed completed. Students
will be watching very closely as construc-
tion begins to see if the university can
make its completion target date.
Kevin Bohn
1985 Talon contributing writer
. . . The 100,000
square foot structure
will have a 4,500
person seating
capacity for home
basketball games and a
6,000 person capacity
for other events in the
main arena . . .
85
CLENDENEN:
(Editor's note: On Saturday, April 27, the lights
dimmed on the last tlxeatre performance in Clen-
denen Hall. The building, which was completed
in 1926, is being demolished to make way for the
new Khashoggi Center. Named for the grand-
father of Mary Graydon, Clendenen has served
as a gymnasium, theatre and lecture hall. From
their first day on campus, when they pick up
their I.D., tograduation, when they get their cap
and gown, Clendenen has been an important
part of the All student's experience. Although it
has been neglected in recent years, a little bit of
AU's history will be lost with the wrecker's
demolition ball. The following are the words of
Kenneth Baker, director of the Theatre Program
for the Department of Performing Arts, as they
appeared in the program of "The Taming of the
Shrew," the last show to be performed in Clen-
denen.)
Over 58 years ago some students
and faculty sat on the front steps
of Clendenin Hall and decided
to do a theatre piece. On May 20,
1927, they performed the first production
in Clendenen Hall, "As You Like It." The
first "steps" were taken! Fifty eight years of
theatre at The American University. Fifty-
eight years of theatre in Clendenen Hall.
The magnitude of it all is staggering.
First, some of us might . . . recall the
uncountable number of hours that stu-
dents, faculty and staff put into the theatre
art.
Someone else might contemplate the
colossal amount of study and preparation
necessary for performance.
Still another might reflect on the bone-
wearying midnight crew calls which last
The End of an Era
until dawn. And the classes and the prepa-
rations for exams and final scenes.
Or someone may recall the nervous ener-
gy which courses through everyone on
opening nights; or the frustration and end-
less searching and exploration for the right
expression of ideas and emotions.
There are many recollections. The one I
savor most is watching the growth of the
student in his/her own individual artistic
and intellectual way. It's quite often un-
measurable. The millions of questions and
pursued answers. Our generations, each
uniquely special in their own ways, have
had to ask hard questions; sought impossi-
ble solutions. Think back to your own time
here in Clendenen. What questions did
you ask? Which answers did you find?
Which did you not find?
We gather now not to weep with sadness
over the loss of a physical structure,
though weep we might, but to rejoice in
memory and celebrate that those days,
times and events happened; that there
was a place like Clendenen in which to
work, study and grow.
And so . . . now it is time to say goodbye.
Goodbye, abstract dramatic energy
bouncing off the tough old walls.
Adieu, bright lights.
Farewell, ideas and emotions flung into
the audiences's eyes and ears and minds.
Adios, front steps on which we sat to talk
and contemplate the machinations of the
world around us and within us.
Goodbye . . . Alas . . . forever. We know
we're richer because you were there.
IMMACULATA:
The Beginning of Another
The expansion of the AU campus
continues.
In a then surprise move, the AU
administration announced on
October 3, 1984, that AU had purchased
the campus of Immaculata Preparatory and
Dunblane Elementary Schools for $7.6 mil-
lion.
The Sisters of Providence own the 8.2
acre campus, which is located on the near-
by Tenley Circle. The schools will remain
open until June 15, 1986, when AU be-
comes the owner of the property.
The Immaculata/Dunblane campus pro-
vides AU with much needed space and
additional facilities.
"The acquisition of Immaculata brings
fantastic opportunities to our academic
and student life programs," says AU pro-
vost Milton Greenberg.
According to AU president Richard Be-
rendzen, "The acquisition of Immaculata/
Dunblane increases our total space by ten
percent. Immaculata/Dunblane, plus the
Khashoggi Center, increases our space by
30 percent."
The Immaculata/Dunblane campus has
five halls and a storage garage that provides
AU 166,000 square feet of building space.
Immaculata Hall, the largest building on
the campus, contains a 200 seat theatre,
classrooms, offices and a 144 seat chapel.
Loretta Hall houses laboratories, a li-
brary, dining room, lounges, offices and
classrooms. Regina Hall contains a gymna-
sium, with showers and lockers. Dunblane
Hall holds a small library, classrooms and
offices.
Marian Hall, which AU already leases
for dormitory space, also houses class-
rooms and offices.
The Sisters of Providence approached
university officials with the idea that AU
consider the purchase of the Immaculata/
Dunblane campus. After discussions, AU's
Board of Trustees agreed to the idea on July
11, 1983. The BOT's decision in 1983 was
kept confidential at the request of the Sis-
ters.
The Sisters of Providence said that over-
riding economic considerations had made
necessary the sale of the Immaculata/
Dunblane campus to AU. This action was a
result of a decline in vocations of the reli-
gious life since the mid-sixties, coupled
with the rapid increase in the number of
infirmed and retired sisters, says Sister
Doherty, General Superior.
More than 360 of the 955 Sisters are over
age 70; this necessitated the building of a
50 bed nursing care facility in 1983. In
addition, a building renovation project at
Saint Mary-of-the-Woods in Indiana cost
$5 million.
The Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-
of-the-Woods, Ind., are present in 57 dio-
ceses in 27 states. The majority of the Sis-
ters work in education, serving as faculty
and campus ministers, and as administra-
tors or staff members in 13 dioceses.
Hundreds of Immaculata and Dunblane
students protested the sale of the campus.
The high school juniors and seniors will
complete their education at the prep
schools, and students in the seventh and
eighth grades will remain until the schools
close in 1986. All other students will either
transfer in the fall, or continue on in the
new Immaculata/Dunblane campus a
group of disgruntled parents bought in
suburban Maryland. The new school will
not be associated with the Sisters of Provi-
dence.
Gidget Fuentes
1985 Talon contributing writer
87
STUDENT
ACTIVISM
IN THE 80's
As he claps his
hands excited-
ly, the AU
freshman's
neatly clipped
hair gets riffled
in the sharp
wind. Raising
his arms above
his head, he entreats fellow marchers to
step quickly, while he chants, "Freedom
Yes! Apartheid No!" to passing motorists,
curious onlookers and approving protest
organizers.
He has been here everyday for the past
three weeks.
For Patrick Lereno, AU has been his
springboard toward becoming a student
activist. As a member of the AU Students
Against Apartheid, he participates with
about 30 other peers in the daily march in
front of the South African Embassy.
His soft-spoken, polite manner is sharp-
ly contrasted by his rakish attire of bright
red buttons bedecking a posterboard sign.
When Lereno talks about apartheid, his 18
year-old boyishness disappears behind a
wave of concern.
"No one has a right to treat another hu-
man like that," he says. "It is an outrage."
Lareno's concern is part of a movement
which is sweeping college campuses
across the nation, but whose roots can be
traced to early AU student activism when
the protests were first precipitated by the
arrest of South Africans, Bishop Desmond
Tutu's nomination for a Nobel Peace Price
(he later won), and a protest letter drafted
by several leading members of Congress.
AU students have steadily ventured down
to the embassy, which lies only a few
blocks away, participating in carefully
organized protest, led by Transafrica's
Randall Robinson and D.C. Delegate Wal-
ter Fauntroy. The protests started Novem-
ber 21st, and Transafrica has vowed to
keep them going until apartheid ends in
South Africa.
Because there is talk of students becom-
ing more conservative, why students
would also take such an instrumental role
in fueling the anti-apartheid fire is an issue
which is baffling administrators, profes-
sors and even students themselves. While
some call it a fad and others call it a trend,
most agree this activism is here to stay.
AU will go down in history as one of the
major activist strongholds in the
1960s. From tear-gassing at Ward Circle to
the takeover of the president's building,
students then were loud, raucous and se-
rious.
KCBA professor Herbert Striner, who
was dean of the College of Continuing
Education (now the Office of Continuing
Education and Conferences) at the time,
became the object of attack when students
protested the presence of the Law Enforce-
ment Training Program at the university.
"I was the reactionary pig dean," he
says, with a chuckle. "They wanted the
program eliminated. It was really quite
amusing. For these students, what they
said made sense." After a lengthy struggle,
the movement eventually died and other
issues, such as making residence halls co-
ed and relaxing university requirements,
were picked up.
There then came a seeming lull in stu-
dent activism in the late 70s, a lull which
Striner attributes to economic pressures.
"Back in those days, there was a liberal-
ly-oriented student body, the economy
was in good shape and students could get
jobs. The world was their oyster."
"Then the economy shifted and people
became concerned about getting jobs. They
became conservative, and the business
school was no longer the object of scorn."
AU president Richard Berendzen says
AU's current involvement in apartheid
demonstrations is the result of an institu-
tional tradition. "AU is not your average
school," he says, "It is more free-thinking,
much more than say Georgetown."
He cites as an example high tuition in-
creases in both universities two years ago,
which spawned a huge protest on The
Quad but which elicited no response from
Georgetown University students.
"It's a different mind-set over there," he
says. "At AU, we complain more loudly."
Activists are quick to emphasize,
however, that today's movements are
trying to steer clear of the negative over-
tones which characterized activists in the
60s as destructive, mindless radicals.
"We don't want people to just throw
rocks," SIS professor Brady Tyson says. "A
lot of the anti-war movement in the 60s set
back the anti-war movement — so much of
it was a form of adolescent anarchism and
was really not very political. The Amer-
ican people became wary, and generations
later, they still distrust the bleeding
hearts."
Tied in with AU's activist tradition of
days past in the belief that many students
today think they are not living up to that
heritage as they should.
"Students think they are living vicar-
iously, and that a great many issues have
passed them by," Striner says.
Several students say an identification
with the university's past may be a part of
today's protests, but not entirely.
1984-85 Kennedy Political Union direc-
tor Mike Paris says, "students have always
had that protest spirit. You always read
about it. Real liberal issues are a part of
college and what college is like. AU was
very activist, and here's an issue where
students can play a role in."
"I'd like to know if all the people out
there know what they're out there for,"
says Paula Gutkin, president of the College
Republicans during 1984-85.
College Young Democrats president
Kathie Davis agrees with Gutkin's remark,
adding that the idea of being on national
television plays an important role in
attracting students to the rallies. "People
definitely get on the bandwagon, knowing
the effect the press will have."
Conceding this point is SIS professor
Coralie Bryant, who has been in-
strumental in encouraging students to
protest in front of the embassy.
"Sure, I've had students say, 'Hey, did
you see us on the evening news?'"
But Bryant defends the overall intent of
the student protestors. Through discus-
sions at the end of class each session, she
can sense an air of seriousness and com-
mitment to the movement, and she also
senses that her students really want to
learn more about South Africa.
Jim Valette, coordinator of AU Divest,
says he believes if students hadn't under-
stood apartheid before the rallies, those
involved do now.
Many students maintain that activism
has taken on a more sophisticated manner
today through increased familiarity with
issues and a more subdued approach.
"Students have become more profes-
sional and direct," says 1984-85 SC Interu-
niversity Affairs director Paul Strauss.
"We've turned into special interest lob-
bying groups and are handling it in a way
conservatives would. If you wear a suit,
carry business cards and give yourself a
more professional approach, people will
take you seriously."
Liberal interest in the issue can be tied to
frustration expressed at Reagan's landslide
re-election last November, which "left no
room for people like us," Bryant says.
"With the apartheid issue, here was an
issue you could at least pin it on."
But 1984-85 SC president Darryl Jones
maintains that just as the issue is not an
issue only for blacks, so too is the issue not
strictly for Republicans or Democrats.
"(Apartheid) is an issue of justice. It
could happen to any group of people," he
says. "It is a tangible issue — people can
see who the culprit is and students think it
is something they should get motivated
about."
Robinson of Transafrica reiterates Jones'
belief. "This issue transcends all barriers.
It is not a black, Jewish or Catholic issue; it
is a human rights issue."
Vallette says the initiative professors
like Bryant and Tyson have taken in
teaching their students about apartheid
has resulted in students being more aware
of what is going on, and has strengthened
student commitment to the issue. Several
students, including key SC leaders, were
committed enough to get arrested.
According to 1984-85 SC parlimenta-
rian Howard Rodda, the movement
has forced people to examine their stand
on the issue.
"You've got to examine — why do peo-
ple care? What motivates them?" he says.
"Social injustice is something everyone
can certainly relate to. I ask myself, is it
right that I get a better education than
someone else just because I have a different
color skin?"
For sophomore Debra Harvey, her
motivation is something which takes her
out of the comfortable world of her books
and her classes, and instead causes her to
march on a street corner on cold and rainy
days.
"Maybe you can't get too far with the
university administration on tuition hikes,
but this," she says, glancing about at the
protesters, "this is long term. This doesn't
just affect me as a student. It affects me a
person."
Alexandra Clough
1985 Talon contributing writer
(The author sewed as editor in chief of The
Eagle for the 1984-85 academic year, and this
article is adapted from a series that appeared in
that paper during February.)
TO DRINK
OR NOT TO
DRINK
a m
he American Uni-
versity: where the
college classroom
extends beyond the
campus into the na-
tion's capital. What
a perfect image for a
brochure to sell the
academic opportu-
nities of the university.
But there is more to college than classes
and paper — there's the weekend. And, for
weekend socializing, there are bars in
Georgetown and at Dupont Circle, our very
own Tavern, and at least one campus party,
if you want to find one.
We don't have to look hard to find the
common denominator in all these activi-
ties. It's rather obvious that alcohol can be
a part of each.
Unlike most states along the east coast,
the District of Columbia allows 18 year-
olds to go into a bar and drink a beer or
glass of wine. But Washington's drinking
age policy has not gone unchallenged. Last
year, a group of area students — the Asso-
ciation Against Age Discrimination — suc-
cessfully fought a movement by some city
council members to raise the drinking age
to 21.
Another threat to 18 year-old's right to
drink came from Secretary of Trans-
portation Elizabeth Dole. Late in the sum-
mer of 1984, Congress passed a law to cut
federal highway funding to any state that
refuses to raise its drinking age to 21.
Faced with what seemed an inevitable
change in D.C. drinking policy, the uni-
versity administration began to formulate a
new alcohol policy of its own. This task
became even more pressing when a fresh-
man, not yet 18 but allegedly drunk at the
time, fell to his death from Letts Hall.
Almost immediately an air of caution
settled over drinking events on campus.
Students organizations sponsoring Tavern
nights began carding patrons. The Division
of Student Life temporarily banned "all
you can drink parties" sponsored by cam-
pus groups. The use of alcohol as a promi-
nent factor in advertising for parties was
also banned.
None of these measures is going to stop
students from drinking; they don't claim to
and they really weren't intended to. The
purpose is rather to promote responsible
use of alcohol.
According to the most recent psychology
department survey on the subject, 95% of
AU students have tried alcohol. Of these,
44% said they use it frequently, 5% claim
to drink every day.
While it seems alcohol is primarily so-
cial and a weekend phenomenon,
THE U^ ^^^
there is no way to assess alcoholism on
campus. "There is no way to define when
alcohol use is a problem," says Anthony
Riley, a professor in AU's department of
psychology.
Dr. Riley, along with Dr. Michael Gross,
director of residential life, and Dr. Michael
Stadter, director of the center for psycholog-
ical and learning services, teach a course
entitled "Alcohol Use and Abuse on Col-
lege Campuses." The course, offered for
the second time this spring, was the sug-
gestion of the Alcohol Awareness Commit-
tee, a group of faculty, staff and students
concerned with the use of alcohol.
Students taking the course help conduct
surveys every two or three years to update
records about alcohol use on campus, and
they help publish books and pamphlets to
educate people about alcohol use.
Another organization active in educa-
tion about alcohol use is AU's chapter of
BACCHUS (Boost Alcohol Consciousness
Concerning the Health of University Stu-
dents). BACCHUS, also in its second year
on campus, was first organized at AU by
Gross and is now a committee of the Resi-
dence Hall Association.
The 20 or so faculty, administrators, staff
and students who are members of the com-
mittee meet once a month to discuss alco-
hol-related issues and to plan the commit-
tee's events. BACCHUS has sponsored
Tavern nights, funded non-alcoholic bars
at parties on campus and brought National
Alcohol Awareness Week activities to AU.
The group is also planning activities to
raise funds for a breathalyzer to be avail-
able for use at parties on campus.
One problem that BACCHUS has had is
image. Students view the committee as a
temperance group. "We want to dispute
that image," says BACCHUS president
Andrea Lure. "We promote responsible
drinking. We are against raising the drink-
ing age because we feel people our age can
drink responsibly," she says.
Students who do feel they have a prob-
lem with alcohol may seek help and
advice from the AU hotline (885-TALK),
psychologists and social workers at the
psychological and learning services cen-
ter, or AU's chapter of Alcoholics Anony-
mous.
"There's not much treatment for alco-
holism," says Dr. Riley, "but education is
certainly the best. If you're going to use
alcohol, be aware of what it does."
Candace Jones
1985 Talon copy editor
91
NUCLEAR
AWARENESS
The anti-nuclear
movement is not a
new creation. Dat-
ing back to the
1940's, it has been a
concern of scien-
tists, doctors, politi-
cians, as well as the
common man. This
private individual is the one who carries
perhaps the greatest burden. Without the
motivation of complicated data of the re-
sponsibility for leading the arms race, this
man must wake himself up and choose to
survive — nothing more, nothing less.
Despite the cloud of political maneuver-
ing often obscuring the nuclear issue, the
choice of involvement still remains one
that is bipartisan, apolitical and uncon-
taminated by personal ambition. It is one of
life. The route directing the maintenance
of this end can indeed be partisan, political
and beneficial to one's career, but the fun-
damental decision rests on the degree to
which the individual assumes responsibil-
ity for his own life.
Would anyone stand quietly by while
two gunmen haggle over who is to have the
privilege of shooting him first? Hopefully,
no one would. And, more specifically, this
person would not waste time pondering
exactly how many bullets are in each gun,
or whether one side should be allowed to
keep his gun. The individual would, in-
stead, probably act; he would have a choice
of what method to use, but he would not
close his eyes and hope. In acting, he
claims his right to his own life and refuses
to be threatened.
The individual must open his eyes and
see the guns surrounding him. He is not
standing behind the gunmen, out of the
line of fire. No matter what he is told, he is
targeted. The gunmen, in shooting each
other, force the individual to block their
vision until he is dragged away, lifeless.
Melodramatic?
Irrelevent?
Any analogy has its shortcomings —
admittedly, the gun scenario is pointedly
simplistic in comparison with the arms
race. But the role of the quiet individual
remains much the same. Whether he is
standing between two gunmen, or going
about his business while statesmen negoti-
ate (or fail to negotiate) in Geneva, his posi-
tion brings him to the same end. Passivity.
And so, the question of what exactly
awareness will do must be addressed. At
first, it may well do nothing, except that it
allows the individual to feel an active part
of the world. He is no longer the isolated
citizen with occasional thoughts of what
might actually happen to him. This indi-
vidual is not concerned with public power,
but with private power. He may not change
the world, but will do more than live off of
it; he will work with it.
Limited as is the scope of the individual,
it is nevertheless the most basic and, there-
fore, the most important. The government
is equipped with the power of destruction
and creation, but no more so than is
granted by every citizen comprising it. If it
becomes too antonomous, ignoring the de-
cisions of it constituents, these consti-
tuents must be responsible for asserting
their wishes and altering the situation. In
the situation concerning life and death,
this activism is doubly important.
In practical terms, this means: voting gov-
ernmental leaders out of office if there is
a failure to respond; demonstrating posi-
tively; writing letters — making it clear
that private decisions concerning private
futures are more than worthy of political
consideration.
Many people believe the decision-
making process requires a thorough, speci-
fic knowledge of all available data. This,
however, works on a sliding scale in rela-
tion to how involved one wishes to be-
come. Most people already basically know
what the situation is. Two major world
powers possess enough nuclear weapons
to accidently or premeditatively annihi-
late the world population. Other countries
also possess smaller numbers of these
arms. That's all. No obligation, no negotia-
tion, just plain fear, is keeping those
weapons from being fired. This "security''
is supposed to treat, not cure, the anxiety of
the global population.
There have been many proposed solu-
tions to end the continuation of the nuclear
arms race. One of the better-known pro-
grams is the bilateral freeze on the testing
and deployment of nuclear arms in the Unit-
ed States and the Soviet Union. This par-
ticular plan requires a certain level of trust,
both on the parts of the politician and the
private individual. As a first step, this trust
is not simply blind hope that each side will
adhere to any agreement reached; it is,
however, a necessary, integral premise. If
there is to be any dismantlement in the
end, with suitable supervision, some type
of alliance must be put into practice. This
by no means equals a reconciliation of
political and social opposites, as in the
case of these two countries. Rather, it
admits that while they will not merge into
a cohesive union, they still retain one com-
mon goal: survival at its most basic level.
Unfortunately, the average person finds
little in these theories pertaining to him.
What he does not realize is that the im-
petus for change must come from him. If
the politicians and statesmen are going to
affect a difference in the arms race, the
private citizen must raise his voice and tell
them to. He is the one who will benefit
from the results: he will begin to live with-
out the nuclear threat.
This end is the goal of anyone who has
become aware of the nuclear arms
race. But to those who haven't taken that
first step, it should be elaborated upon in
terms of trust. The private individual has
to trust himself sufficiently to believe that
he knows what he wants. It isn't simply a
matter of factual information; it is a matter
of conscience and survival.
The work for the individual is in the area
of individual thought, decision-making
and eventual action. The process must be-
gin now. The nuclear arms race has
reached a point where there is no longer
any time for apathy and blithe ignorance.
That is, in effect, the only true bottom line.
Time, what every person longs for, is going
to run out if the potential end of the human
race is ignored. People are born, educated,
begin families, establish careers and do all
that daily living entails, with the presup-
position that it will have a relatively
orderly conclusion. Catastrophe, as a pos-
sibility, seldom clouds that view. Personal
disaster is tragic enough, but to contem-
plate the species' unnatural end is far
worse.
For whatever reasons, the politics of this
age has placed a burden on every indi-
vidual. He must, in an unusually clear
fashion, take responsibility for his own ex-
istence. He is not unequipped for his task.
If he only acquaints himself with the
approaching disaster, he aids in averting it.
And if his efforts fail, he will have at least
lived fully in the world of which he was
once a part.
Ingrid Tischer
1985 Talon academia editor
. . . Would anyone
stand quietly by while
two gunmen haggle
over who is to have
the privilege of
shooting him first?
Hopefully, no one
would . . .
93
MOONIE
MADNESS
$m-
&\o#
m
One night in the
dreams of a
mother in Any-
town, USA: her
daughter has dis-
appeared after a
disturbing argu-
ment. The phone
rings. It is her
daughter telling her she has found a new
life with the Unification Church. She has
finally found truth: to live as the Messiah
did. She feels pure, beautiful and holy. She
would also like her inheritance five years
early . . . The mother screams, waking her-
self.
CULTS — the great American nightmare
. . . parents with visions of the young,
naive "babies," empty-eyed, blank-faced,
chanting foreign syllables with great vehe-
mence and dedication. Is there truth to this
stereotype, to our fears? What is a
"moonie?" Something we're afraid of?
Something wrong? A person sitting cross-
legged waiting to be brainwashed? Does
anyone really know?
According to a leaflet published by
CARP (Collegiate Association for the Re-
search of Principles), CARP's three goals
are: spiritual renewal, a new commitment
to morality and providing a "creative"
alternative to Marxism. Sounds very
admirable . . . what then is our problem
with CARP?
When CARP first came to AU's campus
during the 1983-84 academic year, the
reaction was overwhelmingly negative.
There was a certain sense that "moonie
madness" would soon be taking over cam-
pus — at least trying to.
In The Eagle, AU CARP president Sam
Goulding criticized us as being a religious
intolerant people, afraid of having views
aired that we don't agree with. However, it
is not the views that are the problem. The
views are perfectly admirable. The opposi-
tion is with what the views could be pro-
tecting. Is CARP hiding behind a facade of
goodwill? Do cults play on our fears? Do
they throw us a rope as we stumble with
uncertainty in our search for truth, deceiv-
ing us with a mask of truth? Should we
expect a wolf in sheep's clothing?
Suspicions lie in the mass wedding per-
formed by Reverend Sun Myung Moon, the
severed ties between members and their
parents, and members asking for their in-
heritances early so they can turn them over
to the church. Where does money come
into spiritual renewal, or a commitment to
morality? It is these unanswered questions
and the fogginess of the real goal or func-
tion that produces skepticism.
CARP, even though it is closely associ-
ated with Reverend Moon's church,
should be free to be on this campus, free to
think their thoughts in an intellectual
atmosphere. Their freedom is not to be
questioned. What is questioned is their
freedom to deceive (if, in fact, they do).
We have two duties ourselves: 1) to be
open-minded about views in opposition to
our own, and 2) to question, always ques-
tion, especially that which seems to evade
questions. We owe CARP the freedom to
speak. CARP owes us the freedom to ques-
tion and disagree.
Carrie Earle
1985 Talon metro editor
. . . Their freedom is
not to be questioned.
What is questioned is
their freedom to
deceive (if, in fact,
they do) . . .
95
A POST CARD
FROM EUROPE
In the fall of 1984, AU added
another opportunity for stu-
dents to live and study abroad to
its already celebrated programs
in London, Brussels,
Copenhagen and Rome. The
"virgin voyage" of 21 eager and
vastly different students, and
Dr. Leroy Miller, was not only a
successful experience for everyone in-
volved, but also the start of a new oppor-
tunity in the area of international studies.
Bonn, like the other programs, is based
on the Washington Semester format. Activ-
ities include an internship (in parlia-
ment, party politics, NATO, business, the
arts or one of many other fields), an in-
depth seminar in politics, economics and
culture, and a background course in German
history. Students who do not have pre-
vious experience in German take an inten-
sive language course taught by a team of
professional teachers.
Although each of the 21 students has a
different perspective on what they learned,
and how they grew in Bonn during that
first semester, each would agree that the
experience was more than memorable. Dr.
Miller deserves a special award for "ex-
pecting the unexpected." His directions to
seminars were unforgettable (even if they
were a little vague) his "revised tentative
schedules" were both amusing and in-
formative. And his infamous "We thank
you for speaking to us" speech was at least
sincere, if not imaginative.
Some of the more memorable experi-
ences included a fantastic trip to Munich's
Oktoberfest, a interesting trek to a pig farm,
an "intensive" seminar on the Third World
and a few weeks in Berlin and Hamburg.
The success of the semester in Bonn lies
in the ability to interweave different
events and ideas, and see historical signifi-
cance in current events. No one could have
known in early November, when we were
all joking about "chaos, fear and disin-
tegration" in a novel about terrorism in the
early 70's, how real terrorism would be-
come to life less than two months later.
The students of the fall 1984 semester
in Bonn would like to express their
gratitude to Dr. Miller and the study abroad
staff for an enjoyable and educational
semester.
Cat Hurst
1985 Talon contributing writer
(The author was among the first participants in
the new AU semester in Bonn, West Germany.)
. . . The success of the
semester in Bonn lies
in the ability to
interweave different
events and ideas, and
see historical
significance in current
events . . .
c a m f
1 u
s 97
An interview with
ADNAN
KHASHOGGI
(Editor's note: When Adrian Kiiashoggi visited
D.C. last October, he granted interviews to
several AU campus media representatives, in-
cluding 1985 Talon senior copy editor, Angela
Lurie.) ^_
dnan Khashog-
gi enters the sit-
ting room in his
suite of rooms
at the Regent
Hotel. He
appears confi-
dent, yet he is
softspoken. He
looks like the average businessman in his
Lurie.) «b
A
navy suit. Yet at 49, he is a controversial
world-reknown middleman.
The name Khashoggi conjurs up images
of wealth. After all, he is one of the richest
men in the world. It also brings to mind
controversy over hundreds of millions of
dollars in commissions that were paid to
the Saudi billionaire by American arms
manufactures for his part in negotiating the
sale of weapons to foreign powers.
To AU students, Khashoggi brings some-
thing else to mind — a sports center. It was
Khashoggi's gift of $5 million that made a
forty year dream turn into a reality.
On the weekend of October 2 5 , Khashog-
gi attended the fall meeting of the universi-
ty's Board of Trustees. He flew in from his
home in Paris with his wife Lamia, his
daughter Nabila and his youngest son, Ali.
After landing at Dulles-International Air-
port, they flew to the university by heli-
copter.
The helicopter touched down on the soc-
cer field, and Khashoggi and his family
were wisked into a waiting limo, and
driven to the SIS building, where AU presi-
dent Berendzen and the other members of
the BOT were waiting. The Board met to
discuss, among other things, the financing
of the proposed $19 million sports and
convocation center.
According to Khashoggi, he first be-
came involved with AU after meeting
"some people in the community who were
involved with it." After meeting a few
members of the BOT on a social basis, he
was introduced to Berendzen.
"I was impressed with the caliber of the
man, he was kind enough to propose to us
the scholarship program which we have
done for the school."
One thing led to another, and Khashoggi
was soon invited to join the BOT. It was
through his membership on the Board that
he become involved with the sports center.
The idea of "helping to build a big uni-
versity in the capital of the United States"
appealed to him. While he has numerous
investments throughout the United States
"this opportunity seemed the ideal thing to
do ... It will bring the university recogni-
tion, help enrollment and improve the
school," he says.
"The university was struggling to build
the center. It needed one big push to make
it a reality," he says.
Because of this, Khashoggi says he do-
nated the money to the project.
"To do something to contribute to the
realization of this dream was more impor-
tant than just to give bits and pieces here
and there," he says.
Khashoggi does not like to be referred to
as a politician.
"Politicians have a role in society, but I
seek accomplishment in a different way,"
he says.
Despite his nonpolitical stance
Khashoggi believes he has a solution to the
problems of the Middle East.
"The Middle East is vital to the Western
world. You have to stabilize the re-
sources," Khashoggi says.
"Something must happen before we go
from chaos to communism." Newsweek has
reported that Khashoggi has met with
Israeli Labor Party leader Shimon Peres.
According to Khashoggi, "they (the Mid-
dle East) are doing a great job, but missing
the carrot. The carrot is similar to what
happened in Europe — the Marshall Plan."
As he said last September in an interview
with The Washington Post, "All I'm telling
you is, okay, you tried diplomacy, you
tried wargames, why don't you try the eco-
nomic game, which is the basic game of
survival?"
In addition, Khashoggi does not like to
be referred to as an arms dealer. He says
that his companies play a role in market-
ing, but are not involved in armament.
"We are just servants," he says, "The
decision of defense lies with you."
Angela Lurie
1985 Talon senior copy editor
" . . . This opportunity
seemed the ideal thing
to do ... It will bring
the university recog-
nition, help enrollment
and improve the
school ..."
go
An interview with
RICHARD
BERENDZEN
(Editor's note: In February, AU president
Richard Berendzen granted an interview to the
1985 Talon. What follows is his feelings on a
number of important topics.
The interview was conducted by Angela
Lurie, 1985 Talon senior copy editor, and trans-
cribed by Debbie Brown, 1985 Talon administra-
tive assistant.)
First I'd like to
ask you about
AU85, how it
has progres-
sed, wliat spe-
cific goals liave
been accom-
plished and
what still
needs to be
accomplished.
A: Well,
AU85 is something we mapped out in 1979
to take us to somewhere in the mid-80's,
and we will reach the end of AU85 at the
end of the 1985-86 year . . .
We periodically reassess where we stand
every year and the planning office went
through that just a few months ago. I dis-
cussed that with student leaders and facul-
ty leaders and the staff and others about a
month ago. I think we were all pretty hear-
tened by what we have in fact achieved.
We set for ourselves precise goals there,
in addition to the broader . . . goals which
were words rather than numbers.
One of the goals was to have the admis-
sions standards increase dramatically and
indeed they have. The SAT's are up 150
points and we're confident that by the end
of AU85, they'll be up another 60 points or
so, which I think is probably the most rapid
increase in admissions criteria in the
country.
We've also said in there boldly, we are
going to get a sports and convocation cen-
ter. For years the university had talked
about it and when we were putting together
AU85, basically what we were saying was
we really need it. I didn't have the slightest
idea where we were going to get the funds
to get it, but I was confident that if we all
tried hard enough, somehow we would be
able to come out and get it.
Well, as you know, that's on line and is
moving along.
We also needed a performing arts facility
and with Immaculata, somehow or the
other, through the new space configura-
tions, that too will come to be. I'm not quite
sure where it's going to be, but it's very
clear that with the additional space, every-
thing will work out . . .
Q: Did AU have a plan similar to AU85
previously?
A: No. The university was chartered in
1893, and never had one. Isn't that in-
teresting?
. . . It's something all organizations
ought to do. Any institution should have
what's usually called a strategic plan. I
used to be an advisor for the space pro-
gram, and you know, when you read in the
newspaper that the U.S. has sent a probe to
Jupiter or something, it didn't just happen
last week.
Somebody 12 years earlier had said
"Why don't we send a probe out to Jupi-
ter." They then started working out the
details, making out the plans . . .
When I got here, I thought "Why don't
we eventually plan something like that?"
And now I've laid out my plan of what is,
or started laying out a plan aimed toward
our centennial, and we call it AU100.
Q: What else do you have planned?
A: Well the AU100 is in such a formative
stage now, we have a long ways to go. But
we've had some very instructive and pro-
vocative discussion so far ...
In 1993, the 100th anniversary of this
university, if we stay on the track that
we've chartered for ourselves, . . . I'm pret-
ty confident that we will be the university
that we were founded to be.
Now that's quite a statement. Because
when the people put that charter together,
right up there in 1893, they chose the name
The American University, chartered in the
District of Columbia for a very specific
reason. It was to be ... the national uni-
versity. That is quite a thing to take on.
We are getting our fiscal platform
together. We're getting our academic stan-
dards up. Our reputation's growing. Now
we've got to fill in the pieces. We've got to
be sure we have a few graduate programs of
national and international stature. We
should have some members of the faculty
who are clearly in the top dozen or so in
their field, in the world. You know — very
precise measures of excellence. We should
be graduating a certain number of Rhodes
scholars, Marshall scholar, etc. every few
years. And those are the kinds of ambi-
tions, out-put measures, I want us to set up
in 1985. I think you'll like it.
Q: Do you have, personally, any future plans
beyond wliat you're doing now? Do you think
you'll be staying at AU, or moving on?
A: Ah, you know, every morning, when I
shave, I ask myself "What do I want to be
when I grow up?" Oh, I don't know. I'd
been at this university for just a few
months when people started asking me "Is
it true that you're about to leave?" And that
"We've heard rumors about it."
... I don't know, I'm enjoying it here. I
said a long time ago I would stay as long as I
felt I could contribute. And as long as it
still is a challenge and interesting . . .
Q: How would you classify the type of stu-
dents that come to AU?
A: First of all, extraordinarily diverse.
The students at American perhaps don't
realize quite how heterogeneous they are
unless they've been to some kind of other
university. Students here come from the
District of Columbia, they come from all 50
states, and they come from more than 130
nations. That's about as pluralistic as you
can get.
They're composed of every major racial,
religious, ethnic group on earth.
Second, very definite interest in
academic matters, but certainly in
Washington professional careers. The stu-
dents here are more professionally
oriented than the national norm . . .
I've been struck in the last year or two
with all the talk of how students are now
materialistic and all they care about is
making money. I have been struck by how
our students do apparently have an in-
terest in making money, you see it at career
orientation and in their studies — but at
the same time I think a general concern
about other things too. I've seen it with the
students who dedicate their time to the Big
Buddy program, to dance marathons, to the
Special Olympics, and on down the line.
One of the benefits of my job, there are a lot
of bad qualities, but one of the benefits is
that I get the opportunity to see students
who are very dedicated to helping other
people. So I don't know what it is about the
campus, but I've found what I'd consider a
balance of maturity of students.
Q: Do you consider yourself very involved
with the students?
A: Not nearly as much as I used to be
when I was a professor . . .
I see students about every two or three
days, one way or another. Either at some
function, I'll invite students over to talk
with me, or occasionally a student will
give me a call, or I'll have some kind of
student meeting.
But I'm not primarily involved with stu-
dents as I used to be. I can't be. There's no
way I can be in California talking to
prospective students, or in New York at an
alumni meeting, or in London trying to get
major donors, . . . and be in contact . . .
Q: Wliat do you think of the recent rise in
activism in AU students, protesting apartheid,
and so on?
A: My view on this, I suppose, is a little
different than some people — the general
public at least. And I mean no offense by
this. I'm not used to appearing a snob, but I
think it's true. ... I saw in The New York
Times, an article one day where they said
the same thing I've been saying to a lot of
people for a long time. Students don't lead,
they follow. Students reflect society, some-
times magnify it, sometimes even distort it,
but they do not start it . . .
... We are getting
our fiscal platform
together. We're getting
our academic
standards up. Our
reputation's growing.
Now we've got to fill
in the pieces ..."
101
The AU Board of
Trustees is a group
of prominent men
and women who
serve as the back-
bone of the Uni-
versity. The duties
of the Board in-
clude electing the
president of the University, and approving
the appointments of the provost, vice pres-
ident and the treasurer, as well as deter-
mining the policies of the University to be
executed by the president.
The BOT also choose their own execu-
tive committee; approve appointments to
the faculty; assist, guide and evaluate the
progress of the University; appoint com-
mittees as it sees necessary; assist in rais-
first row:
Frank Dale
Tarek Omar
Fred Ness
Steve Hartwell
Sylvia Greenberg
Ken Luchs
Cvms Ansarv
Adnan Khashoggi
Stuart Bernstein
second row:
Frank Dale
Sondra Bender
Joseph Carlo
Wallace Holladav
Sheldon Fantle
Richard Berendzen
Barrett Prettyman. |r
Howard Cernv
third row:
|ohn Hechmger
Martin Malaikey
Ursula Meese
lames Barrett
Michael Masin
fourth row:
Harold lohnson
John Coleman
Climis Lascaris
Clarence Donohoe
George McGhee
lames Mathews
Betty Murphy
Richard Cohen
BOARD OF
TRUSTEES
ing funds to support and improve pro-
grams, facilities and activities of the Uni-
versity, and, ultimately, provide the Uni-
versity with the freedom and facilities to
carry out its purpose.
Of the 46 Board members, 12 are active
in business, community and civic affairs,
and 10 are lawyers in reputable law firms.
Seven are active in various forms of the
media, including the publisher of the Los
Angeles Herald Examiner and a syndicated
columnist. In addition, an award-winning
film actor and a bishop are members of the
BOT.
Some of the members include:
Cyrus Ansary, a member of the board
since 1967, was named chair in 1982.
Ansary received his Bachelor of Science
degree from AU in 1955 and his LLB from
Columbia University School of Law. In
addition to his work at AU, Ansary serves
of the boards of Georgetown's Internation-
al Law Institute, the Wolf Trap Founda-
tion, Allied Realty Corporation, and the
First American Bank of Maryland.
James Barrett, an insurance company ex-
ecutive, has also contributed to several ser-
vice and educational organizations. He
has held several United Service Organiza-
tions positions, including world presi-
dent, and is founding director and presi-
dent of the U.S. Physical Education and
Sports Development Foundation in
Washington.
Sondra Bender, elected to the board in
1982, is active in area business and com-
munity affairs. She has received awards
for her work with the National Women's
Division, State of Isreal Bonds. Bender and
her family were the primary contributor's
to AU's Bender Library.
Howard Cerny became a member of the
board in 1971. Currently an attorney in
New York City, Cerny is a member of the
Queens County, New York State, Iowa
State, Federal and American Bar Associa-
tions. Before entering private practice, he
was a member of the U.S. Court of Military
Appeals, the U.S. Court of Appeals and the
U.S. Customs Court.
John Coleman has worked extensively as a
civic and cultural leader. He has worked
with the Goodman Theatre of Art Institute
of Chicago, the American Council for the
Arts, the Chicago Council on Foreign Rela-
tions and the Chicago Boys Club. In addi-
tion, he is a trustee of the Menninger
Foundation and the Joffrey Ballet.
Frank Dale, elected in 1982, is vice presi-
dent of the Hearst Corporation and pub-
lisher of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner.
Dale served as U.S. Ambassador to the
United Nations and is a director of the Un-
ited Nations Association.
Nancy Dickerson, since graduating from
the University of Wisconsin and doing
graduate work at Harvard University, has
been associate producer for CBS's "Face
the Nation," and later became producer for
CBS News and special events. In 1960,
Dickerson became CBS's first female cor-
respondent. At NBC in 1963, she was the
first and only woman to have a daily televi-
sion news show. Currently, Dickerson
owns an independent television produc-
tion company, where she is executive pro-
ducer.
Georgie Geyer, elected to the board in
1981, is a syndicated columnist with an
extensive journalism background. Her col-
umn first appeared in the Los Angeles Times
in 1975, and is now syndiacted in over 90
newspapers by the Universal Press Syndi-
cate. In addition to receiving several
awards, Geyer was the speaker at the win-
ter 1984 graduation.
Sylvia Greenberg has served on the board
since 1971. She is the daughter of the late
Abraham Kay, longtime AU trustee and
prime benefactor for the Kay Spiritual Life
Center.
John Hechinger, a fourth-generation
Washingtonian, graduated from the city's
public schools and Yale University. A
member of the board since 1969, Hechin-
ger is a member of the Democratic National
Committee also. In addition, he served as
the first chair of the D.C. city council and as
a delegate to the United Nations Assembly.
Luther Hodges, Jr., a prominent banker,
was elected to the board in 1981. After
earning an undergraduate degree at the
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
and an MBA at Harvard University,
Hodges began an extensive banking career,
including a 15-year association with the
North Carolina National Bank. He served
as deputy secretary of commerce during
the final year of the Carter Administration.
Adnan Khashoggi, see interview on page
98.
Robert Kogod, elected to the board in
1978, earned his Bachelors of Science at
AU's School of Business Administration,
now the Kogod College of Business Admin-
istration. Kogod is president of one of the
largest real estate and development cor-
porations in the Washington area.
Bishop Kenneth Mathews has served on the
board since 1977. He is also a trustee of
Boston University, Western Maryland Col-
lege, Wesley College, Sibley Memorial
Hospital, Asbury Methodist Home, and is
on the board of governors and a member of
the executive committee of the Wesley
Theological Seminary. Mathews served as
United Methodist Bishop of the Washing-
ton area from 1972 to 1980.
George McGhee, on the board since 1981,
has been an independent petroleum ex-
plorer and producer since 1940. McGhee is
a director of Mobil Oil, Proctor and Gam-
ble, Trans World Airlines and the Amer-
ican Security and Trust Company of
Washington. He was U.S. ambassador to
Turkey from 1951-53 and to the Federal
Republic of Germany from 1963-68.
Ursula Meese, elected to the board in
1983, is executive director of the William
Moss Institute, affiliated with AU. She is
active in U.S.O. and UNESCO, and in addi-
tion to being an AU trustee, is a trustee of
the Corcoran Gallery of Art and a member
of the Folger Library Executive Committee
for fund raising. Incidently, she is married
to U.S. Attorney General Ed Meese.
E. Barrett Prettyman has served on the
board since 1961. After clerking for U.S.
Supreme Court justices Robert Jackson,
Felix Frankfurter and John Harlan, he
joined a major Washington law firm in
1955. Prettyman was the first president of
the D.C. Bar Association; a special consul-
tant in the 1967-68 Vietnam fact-finding
trip of the Senate Judiciary Committee; and
a special counsel to the Ethics Committee
of the House of Representatives in its
ABSCAM investigation.
Vincent Reed was elected to the BOT in
1981. He is an alum of Howard University,
West Virginia State College and the Whar-
ton School of Finance. Currently he is vice
president for communications for The
Washington Post. He has in the past served
as Superintendent for the D.C. Public
Schools.
Michelle Brooks
1985 Talon athletics editor
103
THE
FACULTY'S
VIEW
(Editor's note: The following is a speech deli-
vered by University Senate Chair Jim Weaver
before the faculty on September 7, 1984.)
* * ^•■^ am delighted to see you
all here on this glorious
afternoon.
"I am indebted to Pro-
fessor Howard McCur-
dy for sharing the story
with me that is the
theme for this talk. It
seems that shortly after
President Eisenhower was installed as
President of Columbia University, he
addressed a meeting of the faculty. At the
end of his remarks, he stated that he was
very happy for the oppurtunity to address
the employees of the University. Whereup-
on the Dean of the faculty stood and said,
'General Eisenhower, we are the Universi-
ty.' And, of course, the Dean was correct.
"There are universities without stu-
dents. The Center for Advanced Study at
Princeton comes to mind.
"There are universities without trustees.
We think of Oxford and Cambridge.
"There are universities without profes-
sional administration. Again we think of
Oxford and Cambridge.
"But there is no university without a
faculty.
"We have a wonderful tradition. The
most recent issue of American Magazine re-
counted that the Washington College of
Law was founded by two women in 1896 to
educate women in law, who were denied
admission to other law schools.
"We were remarkabley receptive to pro-
fessors fleeing Hitler's Germany.
"The American University never had
quotas for admission of Jewish students
unlike many universities in the country.
We admitted black students very early.
Some 15% of our students now come from
foreign countries. We rank 3rd in the coun-
try in terms of percent of foreign students.
"During the 21 years that I have been
here there has never once been an attempt
to deny faculty members academic free-
dom. When we are sometimes discouraged
about some of the consequences of tenure,
let us remember that tenure is still the best
defense of freedom to speak the truth as we
see it.
University
Senate
first row:
Bruce Norton
Bernie Ross
Ruth Landman
Laura Karadbil, secretary
Jim Weaver, chair
Valerie French, vice chair
Milton Greenberg
Mary Gray
Stanley Weiss
Charles Bartfeld
Nancy Barrett
)o Radner
David Cosby
Austin Barron
Donald Brenner
Pat Finn
Muriel Cantor
third row:
Jeff Fishel
William Ross
John Douglass
"And last, but by no means least. We
have a glorious tradition of faculty govern-
ance — which we are celebrating today.
6 6 Qo — we have a wonderful past — a
O challenging present — and we can
have an exhilarating future, if we make it
so.
"Recently some of our administrators
have bad-mouthed our past. We are re-
minded of our low admissions standards,
the fact that we had few required courses,
that we had the four course system, no
study days prior to exams, etc.
"And admittedly we made mistakes
back then. We went too far.
"But, for myself, I found teaching in that
environment far more rewarding and excit-
ing than teaching today. It is true that our
students today have higher SAT's. But
many have almost no social conscience.
They are more interested in grades than
they are in learning. They are hell-bent on
getting out and making a lot of money.
There is nothing wrong with making
money, but surely there is more to life than
that.
"Gone are the long, heated discussions
of first principles. Those questions seem to
be forgotten in our university today. And,
despite my best efforts in the classroom, I
must admit defeat in trying to ignite a fire
in my students today. I am unable to in-
spire critical consciousness, to inspire a
questioning of our very reason for ex-
istence.
'^Qo — the challenge before us — be-
Ofore The American University is
very great indeed. This seems to me to be
the critical issue before the faculty. How do
we design and teach a curriculum that will
touch our students at the most profound
level? How do we reach students primarily
interested in money-making and self-
aggrandizement to be concerned with first
principles, with human rights, war and
peace, truth and beauty? How do we in-
spire them to choose a life of service to
others?
"We need to engage all of our students in
the great ethical debates facing us as hu-
man beings.
"The questions of increasing poverty in
America amidst our great affluence, of
starvation in the Third World. The ques-
tion of severely handicapped babies, of
euthanasia for the elderly, of nuclear war.
Can we drop nuclear bombs on population
centers and justify that as a moral act? On
military targets? Is it a moral act to threaten
to do these things? Or do you come down
on the same side as the Catholic bishops,
who in their pastoral letter argued that
there is no such thing as just nuclear war?
And, if you agree with the bishops, what
type of U.S. military strategy do you favor?
"These are issues with which our stu-
dents will be grappling in their adult lives.
Can we prepare them for this? Are there
ethical principles that can guide us in deal-
ing with these issues?
"Or for dealing with another question.
What kind of God can we worship in the
last years of the twentieth century? Can we
worship the Judeo-Christian God who cre-
ated the earth and intervenes in human
history? Can we worship the God of prog-
... It is true that our
students today have
higher SAT's. But
many have almost no
social conscience.
They are more
interested in grades
than they are in
learning ..."
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105
ress? of the family? of work? To what will
we ascribe ultimate value in our lives?
"The task of designing and teaching live-
ly, memorable, lasting and liberal educa-
tion for our students is first priority.
6 i /"\ur second priority is to rebuild the
V_y centers of quality in our university
that have been seriously eroded in the past
few years. We have made enormous prog-
ress in the recent past. Our external image
has been dramatically improved. We have
vastly improved Washington College of
Law, the Business School is on an upward
course, we have a new library, student din-
ing services have improved, computer faci-
lities have been greatly increased. All this
has resulted in greater numbers of applica-
tions from academically qualified stu-
dents. You are all aware that we have more
than 900 freshmen this year for the first
time since 1978 and their SAT scores are
dramatically higher than those of the 1978
class. For all these developments, we are
grateful.
"But there is another side to the story.
There has been an erosion of quality in
several of our most respected departments,
particularly at the graduate level. The arts
and humanities have been particularly
hard hit. This erosion must stop. In fact,
the decline must be reversed if we are to be
truly a university worthy of the name.
Hopefully, the program review now in
progress can be useful in achieving this
objective.
i < f"\ur third priority must be to
V-J reshape our budget to reflect the
fact that we are an academic institution.
"The share of the budget raised from stu-
dents in 1978-79 prior to the launching of
AU 85 was 94.1%. This meant that 5.9%
came from other sources. In 1983-84, stu-
dents contributed 95.3%. Only 4.7% came
from other sources. We must do better at
generating external funds to support quali-
ty programs.
"The number of students who paid this
increasing share of the budget declined
during this 5-year period. We had 4,213
full-time undergraduates in 1978-79, but
only 3,668 in 1983-84. This drop of 545
students reflected a 15% decline that re-
flected, in part, the declining number of
college-aged young people in America. But
non-degree enrollments dropped even more
— from 2,791 to 2,183. This decline of 608
enrollments was 21% and took place when
non-degree enrollments were increasing
elsewhere. The decline in non-degree en-
rollments must be reversed.
"The share of the budget allocated to
teaching units fell from 35% in 1978-79 to
30% in 1983-84. If the same percentage of
the budget had gone to teaching units in
1983-84 as in 1978-79-, they would have an
additional $3.5 million.
"This relative decline in expenditures
for the teaching function shows up in a
relative decline in faculty salaries.
Salaries of Full Professor
AU GW GU Gap
1978-79 26.3 30.6 31.1 $4-5,000
1983-84 38.5 44.7 51.1 $6-13,000
In fact, the only university in D.C. that had
lower salaries than AU is 1983-84 was
Catholic University with $35.3. The AU
administration neglected to have us sign a
vow of poverty.
"I mentioned this growing gap to one of
our administrators and he replied that GW
and Georgetown were not the appropriate
universities with which AU should be
compared. I have looked in the AAUP Re-
port and found colleges with which I be-
lieve our administration would prefer us to
compare AU.
"Full professors at Mobile College in
Alabama had salaries of $17.4 in 1983-84.
So, full professors at AU averaged twice as
much as faculty members there.
"But, then looking further, I found the
school I am sure our administration prefers
us to use as the basis for comparisons. Full
professors at Kentucky Christian College
averaged only $12,500 in 1983-84. We did
three times as well as they did. So, the next
time you are having trouble making ends
meet, consider Kentucky Christian.
"Our salaries in 1983-84 were ranked
4,4,2,1 by the AAUP. Our professors and
associate professors were in the 35th per-
centile of comparable Ph.D. granting uni-
versities.
"The President has, just this week,
reiterated his pledge to raise faculty salar-
ies up to rank 2 by the end of AU85. I
applaud this commitment.
"Along with the relative decline of facul-
ty salaries, there has been a tremendous
decline in the quality of our academic faci-
lities. There seem to be fewer classrooms,
the chairs in our classrooms are broken,
lecterns are missing. Even chalk — that
mainstay of professors — seems to have
disappeared. Faculty offices leave much to
be desired.
"We must engage in a serious drive to
re-allocate the budget to support teaching.
* * /^\ur fourth priority is to rebuild a
V^/sense of community among the
faculty. When I joined the faculty in 1963, 1
participated in a day-long orientation ses-
sion for all new faculty. There, I not only
met the other new faculty members, I also
met the deans and members of the admin-
istration. I learned about some of the his-
tory and tradition of the university and
about current procedures. That evening,
President and Mrs. Anderson had a recep-
tion for all new and returning faculty and
spouses. It was an annual event to which
we looked forward.
"The Faculty Women's Club sponsored
an annual dinner for faculty and spouses
and a family picnic in the spring. President
and Mrs. Anderson had an evening recep-
tion to honor retiring professors at which a
gift from the university was presented to
the retirees.
"All these traditions have eroded. As far
as I can tell, this is the first time the faculty
has gotten together in the past 5 years. Be-
lieve me, it is not the last occasion on
which we will be together.
"The former chairs of the University
Senate, who planned this occasion, are
planning several others.
"An issues forum in October will dis-
cuss early retirement, faculty benefits and
recent changes in tax laws that affect facul-
ty. They are organizing four occasions at
which we ask our most distinguished col-
leagues to address us on topics of impor-
tance. We plan a spring reception to honor
our colleagues who will be retiring. We
want to involve our emeriti in all these
activities.
"Some of my colleagues are thinking of
sponsoring an event during Alumni
Weekend so that we can meet with our
former students. In all the 21 years I have
been here, there has never been an event to
bring faculty and alumni together to which
I have been invited.
"Some members of the Executive Com-
mittee of the Senate are trying to figure out
ways to commission an alma mater.
Perhaps the next time we are all together
we can sing The American University
Alma Mater.
"You have already received two copies
of The American Senator, the University
Senate newsletter, which the Executive
Committee launched this summer under
the leadership of Tom DiBacco.
"We are working toward creating a sense
of community among the faculty. We wel-
come your ideas. We welcome your parti-
cipation.
i 6 ' I 'his speech is entitled "The State of
A. The University from the Faculty's
Perspective." The state of the university is
good.
"We need to be reminded of the glories
of our past. We need to capture the elusive
quality of higher education that causes stu-
dents to challenge, question and re-think
our values and traditions.
"We are here not merely to teach people
how to make a living, but, how to live wise-
ly and fully and well.
"We need to rebuild academic quality in
some crucial areas and to re-allocate our
budget to reflect the fact that we are an
academic institution. We need to rebuild a
sense of community among the faculty.
"We need to plan for a future that will be
worthy of our past, that will be faithful to
those who have labored long and hard to
make us what we are today. The challenge
is enormous.
"I am reminded of a comment I heard
years ago. People have learned to swim
under the water like fish and to fly through
the air like birds. We can leant to walk
upright, unafraid, creatively and cooper-
atively — like human beings.
"We are called to share in that learning."
207
THOUGHTS
FROM A
STAFF PERSON
Can't they tell I'm not a student?
Walking through the quad, I
feel conspicuous. Isn't there
something obvious that distin-
guishes a staff member from the people
who go to school here? It wouldn't be age;
at 28, 1 am younger than some of the grad
students.
It's that I look as if I don't belong here.
I'm on your turf. At 5:00, 1 go home; you are
home.
Why do we work for AU? Some of us
came from downtown Washington or some
other pressure-cooker, and we like the
atmosphere here. Because the people we
work for (you) wear jeans and surplus store
jackets, we don't need to buy gray suits and
tie clasps. And the competition for promo-
tions is gentler at a university.
But let's face it: some of us miss being in
college. We miss being part of an academic
community, and this is a decent com-
promise.
Even if I don't go to the lectures, classes,
movies, or dance concerts on campus, I
have the option. They are more a part of my
life than when I worked on K street.
And I enjoy hearing about students' proj-
ects. There is stimulation and thinking
going on near me (even if I'm not doing any
of it).
Can you use advice from someone not
too distant from college life? Three things:
take advantage of co-op and work-study
possibilities. It's nice to have something
besides your grade-point average to put on
first row:
Marge ArgvTopoulos
Betty Dean Ogilvie
Ann Hennings
Greg Welsh
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Cheryl Chappin
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Chris Kovach
Helen DePoy
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Indulge in recreational and extracurric-
ular pursuits, even if you think you don't
have time. You will have even less time
later, and those things will cost more.
And hang onto your friends. It will never
be easier to make them than it is now.
Tracy Samuel
1985 Talon contributing writer
(The author works in the University Publica-
tions and Printing Office, where she edits the
university's alumni magazine, the American.)
LIFE
BEYOND
THE B.S.
It is a well-known fact that once you
have your Bachelor's Degree you have
to make an important choice between
two not-so-hot options. One option is
more school, which some say is a prolonga-
tion of youth, but which everyone says
forestalls the second choice: work, better
known as pain.
It is true that getting up for work, putting
up with your boss, and spending 40 hours a
week in one room — not to mention being
stuck with the label Yuppie — is painful.
However, the idea that school prolongs
one's youth has got to be a line from the
graduate admissions office given to
prospective students. I have personal proof
that youthism is not true: in just one year I
have aged three years, and I have seen peo-
ple age five.
The causes of this aging process are
numerous, the symptoms horrible, and the
cure nonexistent. One cause is the expecta-
tion of intelligence put on the average stu-
dent. The only reason one gets good grades
as a graduate student is because the profes-
sors do not give out C's and D's. An institu-
tion of higher education does not like to
think it has let morons into its graduate
program. However, once you understand
the way the program operates, you realize
that B's are like C's and D's. This turns
most graduate students gray because, as
you know, it is practically impossible to get
all A's.
One of the greatest causes of premature
aging in post-bachelor students is the lack
of social life. It is true that they are busier,
but only with those things designed for the
masochist. They are out at night, but usual-
ly at class; and they work strange hours to
pay for tuition. Some poor souls even have
to work on campus. This sort of nocturnal
behavior results in numerous circles under
the eyes of the student.
The subject of the graduate student's so-
cial life brings up a related area of concern,
beer bellies. It seems that people become
less susceptible to the influence of alcohol
after they receive their degrees. It takes
twice as long to make them even a little bit
tipsy, and this leads to beer bellies.
Of course the lack of exercise does not
help matters. It is no secret that overedu-
cated people dance less. This is a peculiar
phenomenon that warrants further inves-
tigation.
Graduate students look much older for
another important reason, which the writ-
er calls the Scrooge Complex. Graduate
students receive little financial aid and one
has to be brilliant to get a graduate assis-
tantship. To put it plainly and simply, one
must be a miser to pay for school. This is
why you see so many of this particular
population with scowls, cross-feet, and
frown lines.
At some point in graduate school educa-
tion you think that you are going to end up
in the nursing home. This happened to a
friend of mine when she was going to
school on the bus and some undergradu-
ates began to giggle. The young lady struck
out at them and later came to me for advice.
I realized that her touchiness was sign of
middle-age or her passing prime. It was
only three years ago that she would run
across the dorm hall and giggle with her
friends. In graduate school, one either
laughs heartily or not at all.
Graduate students, contrary to popular
belief, do have friends. These people are
interesting — or, more precisely, eccentric.
One begins to believe that the agricultural
policy in Botswana during March 1953 is a
perfectly normal topic of dinner-table con-
versation.
Look around you. Does the graduate stu-
dent population look like a young well ad-
justed group of people? Now look at the
Yuppie crowd. They may look young but
pained. Those are your two options: take
your pick!
Laura George
1985 Talon contributing writer
(The author is a graduate student in the School of
International Service, and served as treasurer of
the Graduate Student Council during the 1984-
85 academic year.)
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campus
dateline
20 —
Installation of new centrex
telephone system on campus
completed. Other campus
improvements completed during
August include the refurbishing of
6th floor Anderson Hall, new
campus maps at the main
entrances, and the installation of
new windows in Mary Graydon
Center (pictured below).
27
International Student Orientation
begins, with activities such as
pot-luck dinners, tours of the D.C.
area and English competency
exams.
. . . AUGUST . . .
■HAUL
Campus dateline compiled and written
by John Quale, 1985 Talon editor in
chief, and Rebecca Rennert, 1985 Talon
editorial assistant.
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Freshman and Transfer Orientation starts
with a welcome address from university
president Richard Berendzen. Other
activities for freshmen and transfers
include hot air balloon rides on the
Quad, an ice cream social and a
barbecue dinner.
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Fall Orientation ends on a sad note
as the AU community learns of the
death of one of its newest members.
Kenneth Alicea, a freshman who
had only been at AU three days,
fell from the roof of the Letts Hall
formal lounge, as unaware students
continued to enjoy themselves at an
orientation dance in the nearby
Clark Hall parking lot.
The Eagle reported the story of the
two students with Alicea prior to
his death — apparently Alicea and
the students had been drinking at
the time. The incident caused the
Division of Student Life to rethink
its policy towards alcohol on
campus.
A
The fall semester of the 1984-85
academic year officially begins.
SEPTEMBER
• • •
College of Arts and Sciences dean
Frank Turaj announces that he will
resign at the end of the 1984-85
academic year, after nine years in that
position. Judge Thomas Buergenthal,
dean of the Washington College of
Law, also announces his intention to
resign at the end of the year. Search
committees are formed to find
replacements.
13
The American Scene announces the
university's first fully endowed
chair. With $1 million from
chemistry professor Dr. Horace
Isbell, the new position will be in
the chemistry department, and will
be focused in the area of
carbohydrate and natural products
research.
17
Cult "Bewareness" Week,
sponsored by the Center for
Campus Ministries, begins.
Activities include an information
table on the Quad and films, all to
help students understand how cults
work.
18
Speaker: Anne Burford, former EPA
administrator, sponsored by the
Kennedy Political Union (KPU). "D.C. is
too small to be a state and too large to be
an asylum for the mentally deranged."
21
Speaker: His Holiness the Dalai
Lama, spiritual and temporal leader
of Tibet, part of the Trustees
Lecture Series. "We need a method
(for world peace] based on human
relations, not weapons and
technology."
23
Muscular Dystrophy Dance Marathon
ends, after raising $7,200.
Approximately 30 dancers made it all
the way through the 30 hour benefit.
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Speaker: Seymour Hersh, Pulitzer
Prize winning journalist, sponsored
by KPU and the Society of
Professional Journalists. "We no
longer hold the leaders in our
government to the same standards
as we hold our family — truth,
honesty and openness."
. . OCTOBER .
-8
Handicapable Awareness Week
begins, with activities such a
wheelchair basketball game and a
speech by Tim Medina, a sign
language interpreter. The week was
sponsored by the Office of Special
Services.
The American Reporter announces
that AU will purchase the nearby
Immaculata/Dunblane grammar and
high school buildings for $7.6
million.
(see story on page 87)
Annual Career Expo held on the
Quad, with employers from over
150 firms attending.
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Parent's Weekend starts off with
the Greek sponsored D.C. Special
Olympics on the Quad. Parents
were also able to see an AU soccer
game and the Department of
Performing Arts production of
"Antigone."
17
A small fire in the Letts-Anderson
connecting lounge marks the fourth
fire alarm for Letts Hall residents.
Many residents become alarmed
when they hear rumors that there
may be an arsonist living in the
building.
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18
Speaker: David Bergland,
Libertarian Party presidential
candidate, sponsored by KPU and
the SGPA undergraduate council.
"You are not free people, but a
means to a politician's end. You
don't count — they are in control
of your lives."
25
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International Week activities begin
with an international fair on the
Quad, and end with an international
fashion show in Clendenen. KPU
sponsored a speech by Yasushi
Murazumi, an envoy from the
Japanese embassy, and the remainder
of the events were sponsored by
FORSA, the SC and the Leonard Hall
Dorm Council.
Speaker: George Gilder,
conservative economist, sponsored
by KPU. "(President Reagan has)
unleashed a tremendous U.S.
economic recovery."
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The Board of Trustees meet, and
among other things, approve a 6%
increase in faculty salaries, (see
article about the BOT on page 102)
31
Halloween comes to AU, with its
usual number of parties — most
noteably the annual Hughes Hall
Halloween Bash. In addition, students
in the English Language Institute learn
about American traditions by trying
their hand at pumpkin carving.
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. . . NOVEMBER . . .
Speaker: Julian Bond, Georgia state
senator, sponsored by KPU and
OASATAU. "It can be no accident
today that the most effective
spokesman for the movement of
privilege and prejudice sits in the
White House, as the gains Dr.
(Martin Luther) King fought for and
died for 20 years ago are slowly
being whittled away."
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Speaker: Sam Donaldson, ABC White
House correspondant, sponsored by
KPU. "I think issues will never be the
dominant part of a political campaign.
They haven't been for a long time.
They (the Reagan administration)
didn't want to discuss the issues . . ,
If they're going to wave American
flags and play patriotic music, then
that's the campaign."
Residence Hall Association
president Mitch Hertz steps down,
citing health reasons. Michael Raus
assumes position.
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For the first time in five years, the AU
soccer team plays in the NCAA
tournament.
(See article on page 170)
Speaker: Lois Gibbs, leader of Love
Canal Home Association, anti-toxic
waste activist, sponsored by KPU
and ECO. "The eggs and products
you consume daily could be
contaminated . . . The American
public has to stand up and fight for
its rights."
28
First large group of AU students
protest against apartheid near the
South African embassy.
(See related article on page 88)
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Gas leak on campus nearly causes an
emergency evacuation on campus.
The D.C. Fire Department and the
Washington Gas Company quickly
respond to the problem.
Speaker: Dr. Ruth Westheimer, sex
therapist, sponsored by KPU. "In
our society sexuality is and ought
to remain a private matter. But we
ought to talk and teach about it to
prevent misconceptions."
5
University Senate votes to
recommend a 7.5% increase in
tuition to the Board of Trustees.
SC president Darryl Jones voices
his displeasure with the proposed
hike, which would place the price
for one year at AU at around
$14,000 (all expenses totalled).
In other business, the University
Senate votes to raise one of the
overall admissions requirements.
They recommend that the 2.0 high
school GPA requirement be raised
to 2.5, citing that the majority of
AU students are above this level
anyways.
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Exam week starts, as trips to the
library become very frequent.
21
Students head home for winter
break, as the fall semester comes to
a close.
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The D.C. Board of Zoning
Adjustment approves the Khashoggi
Center construction, making the
center one step closer.
17
Orientation for the spring semester
begins; classes start on the 22nd.
Speaker: Jihan Sadat, wife of the
late Anwar Sadat, starts off her lecture
series entitled "Women in a Changing
World." "We don't want to be better
than the men. It is a kind of yearning
to participate, to fulfill, to share in the
struggle for a better world."
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Winter commencement ceremonies
held at Constitution Hall. 425
students receive degrees.
Commencement speaker: Georgie
Anne Geyer, syndicated columnist.
"Much of the revolution today is
economic . . . There is certainly
no freedom without economic
freedom ..."
"Follow not your interests, which
change, but what you love, which
doesn't change.'
Speaker: Betty Ford, former first
lady, a part of the "Women in a
Changing World" lecture series.
"For the past 50 years, we women
have embarked on adventure. It is
perhaps a quest for change, for the
growth in the lives of women."
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. . FEBRUARY . . .
88 students and faculty members
are arrested at the South African
embassy, protesting apartheid.
5
Speaker: Rev. Jerry Falwell, leader
of the Moral Majority, sponsored by
KPU. "We (the Moral Majority)
have got to work to educate that we
are destroying human life, not
tissue, when there is an abortion."
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Speaker: Strobe Talbott,
Washington Bureau Chief of Time,
sponsored by KPU. "President
Reagan was convinced that the U.S.
was inferior to the Soviet Union.
He was wrong about this."
20
Speaker: Rosalynn Carter, former
first lady, part of the "Women in a
Changing World" lecture series.
"Men are going to recognize the
value of what was traditionally
meant for the women's place and
share in the possibilities."
Founder's Weekend activities begin,
including a roast of the university
hosted by AU alum Maury Povich, a
faculty/student reception and athletic
events on the Quad. Beautiful weather
adds to the crowds of this well
organized weekend.
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Speaker: Colman McCarthy,
columnist for The Washington Post,
and AU adjunct professor,
sponsored by KPU. "The happiest
people are those who use their
skills to reduce the suffering of
others."
27
Speaker: Jeane Kirkpatrick, former
U.S. Ambassador to the United
Nations, part of the "Women in a
Changing World" lecture series. "If
a women seems strong, she is
called tough. If she doesn't, she is
called clearly incompetent to hold
the office. So you take your
choices."
Mike Paris is elected SC president
for the 1985-86 academic year,
defeating Paul Strauss and Ted
Voorhees. Mark Epstein is reelected
vice president. Meredyth Lipson is
the new secretary, along with Carl
Hackling, the new comptroller and
Steve Berns, the new Student
Union Board chair.
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MARCH . . .
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Speaker: Randall Robinson,
coordinator of Transafrica, sponsored
by KPU. "We (Americans) are a
parochial, one-language,
narrowminded, provincial country.
We are against the communists. We
have found nothing else in the world
to oppose except communism."
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The AU Board of Trustees approves
a 7.9% increase in tuition, which
sets next year's tuition at $8,200.
97
The American Scene announces that
Frederick Anderson will be the
new dean of the Washington
College of Law, replacing retiring
dean Thomas Buergenthal.
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Speaker: Coretta Scott King, widow of
Rev. Martin Luther King, a part of the
"Women in a Changing World"
lecture series. "If people can be taught
to hate, then they certainly can be
taught to love."
Speaker: Sir Harold Wilson, former
British Prime Minister, sponsored by
KPU. "Your leadership (the U.S.) has
up to now been making progress . . .
we admire what is done here."
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. . . APRIL . .
New Talon office in 228 MGC is
officially opened. A plaque is
unveiled honoring the first
yearbook editor, the late Vera
Stafford Knight, by her daughter
Jennie Lea Knight (pictured below).
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Speaker: Barbara Walters, ABC News,
a part of the "Women in a Changing
World" lecture series. "Part of the
conflict for women, especially in very
high places, is the balancing of a
personal life, indeed, even having a
personal life."
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Speaker: Mitch Snyder, of the
Community for Creative
Nonviolence, sponsored by KPU.
"The majority of college people
today, like everyone else, are dead
from the neck up. They're busy
scrambling for the future and are
strapped to an environment that
discourages cooperation and
unselfishness."
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Hunger in America Week starts,
sponsored by AU Hunger Action.
Activities include a candlelight
service and a food and clothing
Speaker: Carl Bernstein,
award-winning journalist,
sponsored by KPU. "No attitude
(the press' positive feeling about
itself) could be more unjustified.
We don't do our job well enough,
we undermine our own
credibility."
18
Dr. Betty Bennett, of the Pratt
Institute of New York City, is
named to replace retiring CAS dean
Frank Turaj.
19
Greek Week starts off with a
parking lot party. Other activities
include a chalk on the walk, a
Greek Olympics and a potluck
dinner.
Spring Concert arrives at last, as SUB
has the amphitheatre rocking to
NRBQ, The Bus Boys, and John
Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band.
A good time is had by all.
2,
Speaker: Gary Hart, democratic
senator from Colorado, sponsored
by KPU. "When we neglect the
education of our young people, we
endanger . . . (our) appreciation of
ife itself."
William Evans-Smith, director of
Foreign Area Studies, a
non-academic part of the university
that produces country study books,
is arrested on the suspicion that he
murdered his wife.
26
Large numbers of AU alums return
to campus for the largest alumni
reunion yet — this year a full
alumni weekend.
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. . . MAY . . .
Speaker: Barbara Bush, wife of U.S.
vice president George Bush, the last
of the "Women in a Changing
World" series. "If more people
could read, we would have less
problems. We'd have less teenage
pregnancies, we would have less
unwanted babies."
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Senior Week begins, as exams
finish. Activities for the "new
alum" include a semi-formal dance
a river boat cruise and a barbeque.
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Graduation finally arrives for anxious
seniors. The five separate ceremonies
begin with the Lucy Webb Hayes School
of Nursing commencement, as Karen
Walborn, director of the Homecare
Hospice of Virginia, gives the
commencement address. Then Irish
actress Siobhan McKenna speaks to the
College of Arts and Sciences, and
Allegheny International chief
administrative officer Clayton Sweeney
speaks to the Kogod College of Business
Administration. FBI director William
Webster is the commencement speaker
for the College of Public and
International Affairs, and the day ends
with U.S. Federal District Court Judge
Sara Barker, an AU alum, speaking to
the Washington College of Law. Laura
Cruger is the student speaker of CAS,
and Jay Tcath for CPIA.
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The celebrated chamber music
ensemble the Tokyo String
Quartet, appeared at the Kay
Spiritual Life Center both November 8
and February 28. Having crossed five
countries and commanded over 1600
concerts during their career, these
internationally known artists marked
their thirteenth memorable season as
guest residents of the Department of
Performing Arts. Indeed, their
instruments were also an "exclusive
engagement" from the Corcoran Gallery
of Art: four priceless 300 year old Amati
instruments made by a seventeenth
century Italian, Nicolo Amati.
For the AU performance, the forte of
these four masterful musicians was their
sonorous, "singular" effect. Altogether
eschewing showing individualism or any
exhibitionism, the two violinists, Peter
Oundjian and Kikuei Ikeda, violist
Kazuhide Isomura, and cellist Sadao
Harada merged with their instruments
and music. However, such technical
virtuosity did not tame the vibrancy of
their performance: mingling artistry with
appetite, this ensemble played its music
with flair and fervour, not with sedate
self-righteousness. In fact, the program,
which encompassed three lengthy works
(Hadyn's Quartet in G minor, "The
Horseman," "Hindesmith's Quartet No.
3" and "Mendelssohn's Quartet in E
Minor) hardly seemed to whet the
audiences appetite, and the applause
entreated for an encore, for any
extension of this enhancing experience.
Thus, the Tokyo String Quartet
successfully closed another scintillating
artistic season in residency on campus.
Jacqueline Brown
1985 Talon contributing editor
Tokyo String Quartet
Renowned opera singer Elizabeth
Schwarzkopf conducted the first
of her master classes with music
students for several hours Wednesday
evening, February 20. By accepting
DPA's invitation to teach these classes,
the self-assured and immaculately
coiffured soprano attracted a dressy and
diverse crowd to McDonald Recital Hall.
Schwarzkopf's inimitable style quickly
sets the pace for the program. First, she
apothesized her credo with a quotation
from Goethe, declaring that "one has to
repeat the truth over and over again
simply because the error around us has
been repeated again and again . . . and
everywhere the error is on top." Then,
taking her pupils one by one in several
musical menages a trois, she proceeds to
incisively illustrate this philosophy,
albeit with smiles and gentle head
shaking.
As she listens to and instructs the
vocalists, this "grand dame" of opera
zealously stops and corrects any error in
the singer's voice and technique. "Why
do you do that?" she cried to each one,
criticizing some error, and then
explaining that opera has many
"classical rules, not invented by me."
To explain what she wants from
students, Schwarzkopf uses various
colorful methods: she frequently bursts
into song and even pantomimes playing
the violin.
Though she scolds students for
slipping into serious "fallacies, errors,
and common misconceptions,"
Schwarzkopf quickly praises each
student for his or her particular forte. "I
don't want you to imitate my voice, I
want you to imitate my function," she
says, applauding their efforts. "Just bring
out your potential, not mine."
Her students enthusiastically fling
themselves into song, and thank
Schwarzkopf for her alacrity.
Jacqueline Brown
1985 Talon contributing editor
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The Fall Dance Concert, a vehicle
for self-expression at AU, was
well-received at the opening,
November 15.
Featured in the production was the
work "Fine Line," choreographed by
guest artist Risa Jaraslow. A nationally
acclaimed dancer and choreographer,
Jaraslow demonstrated with this piece "a
delicate edge between order and chaos."
Danced by Maria Eist, Laura Hall and
Judy Keefe, this erratic performance
shifted between sharp and languid
movement.
Susan Catlett's amusing piece
"American Passtime" was about, of
course, baseball. Performed by Alison
Ball, Maria Eist, Susie Erenrich, Laura
Hall, Kim Hamilton, Judy Keefe and
Wendy Scoular, this lighthearted
adaptation of the popular sport was
cleverly combined with music byJ.S.
Bach.
The work "Petite Allegro Non
Troppo," performed by Alison Ball,
Maria Eist and Julie Otten exhibited
carefully controlled extension.
Ann Parson's "Folk Songs" was a
decorative piece, nicely executed by
Denise Hinton, Maria Eist, Nancy Wire
and Kiran Na.
The accompaniment for George
Thompson's "Diffusion" was one of the
work's strongest assets. Written by David
Diamond, this beautiful music was
accentuated by lovely pastel costumes
and soft lighting. Maria Eist, Alison Ball,
Judy Blaylock and Laura Hall performed
the somewhat soothing number.
"A Tribute to Kent State," dedicated
to the parents of one of the 1970 victims,
incorporated many audio visual effects.
The piece, choreographed by Susie
Erenrich, completed an evening of
diverse, thought-provoking
entertainment.
Ashley Pound
1985 Talon senior contributing editor
Fall Dance Concert
147
Grace and innovation were not
lacking in the Spring Dance
Concert.
"Vitalization," choreographed and
danced by Maria Eist and Allison Ball
was a confirmation that abstraction is
not dead. The nymph-like dancers
evoked ages of nature in both its graceful
and erratic moments.
Ann Parson's "Boutade" was a nice,
but ambiguous piece, danced well by
Denise Hinton and Laura Simcox.
"Dipold Field," a collaborative project
by dancers Annetta Dexter, Judy Keefe
and Gabriella Louis, was erotic in design
and mood.
"Petite Allegro Non Troppo,"
choreographed by Judy Keefe, was a
showcase for some of the best, most
fluid dancing in the show, executed by
Alison Ball, Maria Eist and Julie Otten.
Upbeat and contemporary in style, this
dance emphasized individuality,
excitement and chaos in a truly modern
way.
A repeat performance of "Night
Moves" was a welcome treat and is still
one of the best pieces ever presented by
DPA. Robin Kautz was in top form in
her "Invocation-Born, Never Asked."
Pearl Germaine, in "I No Longer Love
Your Mouth," is a stunning dancer.
Abigail Kaplan danced the final number,
"I Was Looking For You."
"Grade's Relations," the work of guest
artist Ruth Barnes, is based on the
vaudeville routines of George Burns and
Gracie Allen. Amusing and filled with a
wry, almost cynical humor, this piece,
danced by Nancy Acox, Sue Catlett,
Annetta Dexter, Maria Eist, Judy Keefe,
Celia Madeoy and Julie Otten was
superb.
Artistically and technically, AU's
dance concerts have been excellent. This
year's Spring Concert was certainly no
exception.
Andrea Schwarzmann
1985 Talon contributing writer
(This article is adapted from an article that
appeared in The Eagle on 4/5/85.)
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Cast
Chorus K- Alan Baker
Antigone Page Petty
Nurse Karen Lehr
Ismene Celia Madeoy
Haemon Sean Webby
Creon Ron Newman
Page Mafalda Arena
First Guard Donald Walker
Second Guard Charlie Bandler
Third Guard David Wright
Messenger Paul Miscan
Eurydice Shannon Wilbanks
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ntigone," Jean Anouilh's
version of Sophocles'
.famous tragedy, became
thought-provoking entertainment
beginning October 12. On a campus
where students are accustomed to light
musical comedies, "Antigone," directed
by Kenneth Baker of the Department of
Performing Arts (DPA) was surprisingly
well received.
The plot, as in any tragedy, unfolds
slowly. King Creon (Ron Newman) has
issued an edict forbidding the burial of
Antigone's slain brother, Polynices.
Antigone (Page Petty) rebels against
the law and buries her brother's body.
Once discovered, Antigone argues with
her uncle, the King. Unable to sway the
determined heroine in her loyalty to her
brother, Creon refuses to repeal the
edict. Antigone is soon put to death.
However morbid this may sound,
impending death for Antigone enables
her to vocalize pent-up hostility toward
a cruel king and an unfair society.
Highlights of the production included
the confrontation between Petty and
Newman, the most consistently
believable performer; scenes in which
Donald Walker, as the head guard
provided the well-timed comic relief;
and the messenger's monologue, by Paul
Miscan, which tied up the loose ends of
a tragic tale. Celia Madeoy, playing
Antigone's sister, Ismene, receives
mention for her ability to portray heavy
emotion without sounding melodramatic
in her part as a young girl caught in a
moral dilemma: to follow her sister or to
obey the king.
In a play that tempts the performer to
overact, exaggeration was minimal. A
worthwhile effort, "Antigone" helped
pave the way for future serious drama by
DPA.
Ashley Pound
1985 Talon senior contributing editor
"Antigone
> >
151
Cast
George/Black G. Anthony Bell
Rosie McTavish Anne Caskey
Amanda Bottoms Bonnie Christian
JackylGirl Kathryn Fritz
Lizzy Pheifer Maria Garcia
Steffie Randee Godofsky
Bully Gary Graff
Toots Jennifer Hayes
Maggie Erin Lyons
TrixIKid understudy Celia Madeoy
Kid Lisa Phillips
Cocky Aaron Shields
Rose Judy Simmons
April Ploy Abbey Sonin
Sir Paul Valley
Kimmy Sullivan Elisa Wain
Eddie Skipp David Wright
Cameo Appearance Dody Homan
Vj2
a m
DPA's production of "The Roar of
the Greasepaint, the Smell of the
Crowd," written by Anthony
Newley and Leslie Bricusse, was a
triumph for director Gail Humphries
Breeskin and her talented cast at the
November 30 opening. Not since the
department's production of "A
Midsummer Night's Dream" has a
performance been so polished and
energetic as "Greasepaint," a
sociopolitical commentary dealing with
prejudice, self esteem, and
independence.
A lively, bittersweet musical,
"Greasepaint" tells the story of Cocky, a
self-degrading young man who kow-tows
to a wealthy, manipulative aristocrat,
Sir. Paul Valley's admirable portrayal of
this haughty sophisticate served
primarily to contrast Aaron Shields'
delightful performance as the unrefined
begger with the cockney accent.
Surrounded by a cluster of jeering
street urchins, the rag-clad pauper is
forced to compete with Sir for respect,
sustenance and happiness. True to the
idea that winning is more important
than fair play, Sir devises his own rules
for competing in the "game of life,"
leaving Cocky bewildered about his
insurmountable helplessness.
Lisa Phillips as the Kid, a snot-nosed
brat whose obnoxious manner and
twisted facial expressions boosted Sir's
carefully calculated movement and
appearance, created a strong character
who the audience loved to hate.
"Who Can I Turn To," the strongest,
most expressive number in
"Greasepaint" was beautifully performed
by Shields who, with building intensity,
drew tears from the audience.
A thoroughly enjoyable production,
§ "Greasepaint" was, clearly, what good
^ college theater is about.
I Ashley Pound
& 1985 Talon senior contributing editor
"The Roar of the
Greasepaint,
The Smell of the Crowd"
a m
153
Cast
Peggy Rogers Lisa Phillips
Catherine Jennifer Hayes
Lois Fisher Valerie Gale
Mrs. Lily Mortar Erin Lyons
Evelyn Munn Cathy Gravalis
Helen Burton Juli Amsden
Rosalie Wells Shari Berg
Janet Mafalda Arena
Leslie Vanessa Barber
Mary Tilford Shannon Wilbanks
Karen Wright Celia Madeoy
Martha Dobie Kathryn Fritz
Doctor Joseph Cardin Semos Gardner
Agatha Randee Godofsky
Mrs. Amelia Tilford Ruth Henoch
Grocery Boy Aaron Shields
154
Challenging contemporary
American social conscience, DPA
marched forward with the
compelling militant drama, "The
Children's Hour," which opened
February 22nd. While exploring mass
hysteria and moral insensitivity, drama
students charged Lillian Hellman's story
with modern urgency.
Because she continually lies to and
manipulates those around her, a difficult
and selfish schoolgirl, Mary Tillford
(Shannon Willbanks) has frequently
stirred trouble in a small private girls
school. One day, to draw suspicion from
herself, Mary slyly alleges that her
teachers, Ms. Wright and Ms. Dobie,
have had "unnatural" relations. She
spitefully implies that she hasn't been
acting wrongly, but that her teachers
have, and are persecuting her for
noticing this imaginary affair.
Throughout the play, Wilbanks
monopolized attention as the soulless,
machinating Mary Tilford. Allison Berg,
portraying one of Mary's victims, Rosalie
Wells, revealed the petty side of human
nature, by following Mary not from any
moral conviction, but from the guilty
fear that Mary might expose her own
misdemeanors.
Celia Madeoy's dapper Karen Wright
and Kathryn Fritz's earnest Martha
Dobie attracted the most sympathy, as
the victims of the public's prejudice and
persecution.
Thus, "The Children's Hour"
uncompromisingly condemned social
bigotry and injustice while appealing for
individual integrity.
Jacqueline Brown
1985 Talon contributing editor
"The Children's Hour"
155
"Mi
Wonderful," a thesis
project directed by
.Michael Page and
sponsored by OASATAU opened March
8. The show had everything going for it:
a cast of experienced students and
alumni, a talented choreographer, and a
director with an impressive theatrical
history. Together the cast and crew
endured the headaches and enjoyed the
rewards of producing a full-length
musical.
This typical 1950's show about the
stagnant career of a small-time night
club singer, Charlie Welsh, played by
Keith Cross, illustrates the period's
emphasis on ambition and success.
Charlie's lack of confidence leads him
to avoid time and time again the many
opportunities that come his way. After
overcoming his fear of challenges,
Charlie marries Ethel Pearson (Jaqueline
Jackson) and goes on to become the star
of the prestigious Palm Club.
Jackson and Jill Herzong, who played
Liz, the wife of Charlie's agent Fred
Campell (Richard Pelzman), emerged as
champions of their art in this
uncomplicated production.
Herzog's interaction with Pelzman, in
their roles as husband and wife,
produced another fiery presence on
stage. In almost constant battle, the
pair's aggression and vitality were an
asset to the production.
Another gem was Susan Goldstein as
Rita Romano, whose obnoxious New
York accent contradicted the image of
the sophisticated, well-poised actress her
character sought to be.
Although the production was not the
strongest of the season, "Mr. Wonderful"
was a worthwhile endeavor, enhanced
by Page's promising skill.
Ashley Pound
1985 Talon senior contributing editor
Cast
ta Romano Susan Goldstein
Fred Campbell Richard Pelzman
1 Campbell Jill Herzog
Mr. Foster Donald Walker
Charlie Welch Keith Cross
Ethel Pearson Jacqueline Jackson
"Mr. Wonderful"
Cast
£d Eaton Sonny
Aaron Shields ]oey
Jeffrey Craig Doc
Alan Popovsky Chaulky
Daniel Schnur Emcee
Raja Sabbaghs Kid Curtis
Victor Arencibia Young Sonny
tanding Eight," an
expressionistic one act
argument for honesty, made
its round on April 11 and 12 in the New
Lecture auditorium. Originally preparing
a simple thesis project, Timothy
Erickson wrote and directed this
"striking" scenario.
This production played with a
chiaroscuro of light and emotion,
exploring human surrender and survival
in the rough game of life. Sonny (Ed
Eaton), a former middle weight
champion who has long lost his title and
his fame, finally confronts his past
defeat: while "punch-drunk" with
alcoholic regret, he slowly realizes that
his nemesis was as much himself as the
Kid Curtis twenty years ago. "You quit
life, Sonny," Joey, the oracular bartender
buddy intoned to him. "You let life K.O.
you."
Symbolism also sobered the stage
atmosphere. Distinguishing the troubled
flight of Sonny's thoughts from reality,
expressionistic flashes of light and
motion freezes introduce the flashback
scenes of Sonny's last fight, and create a
moody, introspective atmosphere on
stage.
Eaton, and Aaron Shields as Joey were
among the highlights of this production.
Both actors tread formerly typecast
terrain with certainty and sympathy:
Eaton avoided maudlin prize-fighter
swaggering and Shields dispensed wry
wisdom. The other actors, especially the
brisk emcee (Daniel Schnur) and
Sonny's consoling comrades, Jeffrey
Craig and Alan Popovsky, added other
dimensions to the production.
Thus, the thoughtful and well staged
"Standing Eight" stood for courageous
combat, whatever the game, with the
"right stuff."
Jacqueline Brown
1985 Talon contributing editor
"Standing Eight"
257
Cast
Lucentio Sean Webby
Tranio Joshua Gropper
Baptista Minola Paul Micsan
Gremio Nicholas Hofmann
Kale, the shrew Valerie Fuchs
Hortensio Robert Mond
Bianca Celia Madeoy
Biondello Bonnie Christian
Petruchio Paul Valley
Grumio Tony Greenleaf
Curtis Emanuel Treeson
Sugarsop Rolando Chavez
A Pedant Jim MacKenzie
A Haberdasher Gary Graff
A Tailor Glenn Dolcemascolo
Vincentio David Wright
A Widow Mafalda Arena
m p it s
A. i
he Taming of the Shrew"
started its boisterous run
Friday evening, April 19, as
the last performance of the season and
the last performance in Clendenen gym.
While reviving Shakespeare's classic
battle of wits between the sexes, the
actors leaped into their production with
agility and appetite.
Two headstrong characters, Katharina
and Petruchio, dominate the
entertainment. The lovely but
tempestuous Kate tyrannizes her family
and most of Padua with her acerbic
tongue; however, her demure and dainty
sister Bianca attracts as many men as
Kate drives away. A pair of Bianca's
thwarted admirers, Hortensio and
Gremio, form a desperate alliance to find
a likely husband, i.e. victim, for the
| troublesome shrew.
^ Enter Petruchio, the brash young man
& who will obligingly court Kate, "wed
| her, bed her, and thoroughly rid the
°- house of her," as the two men desire.
Crowing lustily that "I am rough and
woo not like a babe," Paul Valley as
Petruchio combined brag and bounce as
he shouted and strode about the stage.
Valerie Fuchs acted the part of Kate
with inconquerable grace and authority.
Tony Greenleaf's sardonic Grumio
imparted salty, sly humour to his master
Petruchio's trespasses. The blithe,
irrepressible Biondello, Bonnie
Christian, also kept events on a lively
footing with her impetuous dashing and
delight in bringing bad news. Finally,
although Kate may have surrendered her
sovereignity, Celia Madeoy's
sweetly-tempered Bianca turned the
tables again for the feminists
mischeviously declaring her own
independence at the end of the play.
Jacqueline Brown
1985 Talon contributing editor
'The Taming of the
Shrew' '
259
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A timid artist is a failing artist unable to listen to his
own feelings. Watkins seems vacant of timid artists.
Just by checking out the Department
of Art's Watkins Art Gallery, one can
see the freedom given to the student
artist honing his skills at AU. Not
freedom run amuck, but freedom of
purpose. The artists have an aim — the
work displayed at Watkins is an
electrifying promise, a step towards their
individual aspirations.
A timid artist is a failing artist unable
to listen to his own feelings. Watkins
seems vacant of timid artists. There is a
diversity visible in all the work, which
points not to an institution molding or
manufacturing artists, but to individuals
being allowed to grow in their own
directions — organically realizing their
own visions.
And none of these visions are the
same; everyone is following their own
scent, their own intuition. Once a
student's skills are honed, the observer
detects the branching out of ideas. What
interests the artist. The way shadow
plays against the curve of a hip, or the
bend of a dale. The society of colors and
how they interact. How artists do not
have to be confined to any one medium,
but can use everything at their disposal,
and everything combined.
It is not as if the artist grasps an idea
and then picks the best tool with which
to manifest that idea. More often the tool
is achieved, then what is special in the
artist comes by itself
The individual is the prime concern at
Watkins.
Russell Atwood
1985 Talon contributing writer
Watkins Art Gallery
261
campus
^
athletics
?
Cheerleading coach Cathy Seager
organized AU's outdated,
24-member squad into a tight,
collegiate, co-ed cheering team of 12 this
year.
This was Seager's first year coaching a
collegiate squad, and initially she found
it hard work. However, her enthusiasm
and dedication to the formation of a
good squad had excellent results. But
Seager gives the credit to the team
members. "I have nothing but praise for
this year's squad," she says.
The team did not get club status from
the Student Confederation, and thus had
to manage uniforms and other expenses
on their own. "We were out in the
cold," says Seager of the team's
Inter-Club Council status.
But with the help of the athletic
department and various fund-raisers, the
squad managed to acquire uniforms.
In the past, the presence of the squad
has been limited. However, they kept a
busy schedule this year.
They cheered at basketball games and
held two pep rallies. They did a
demonstration in Cassell Center in the
fall to show their progress and new look.
The team also taped a commercial for
WAVE-TV, advertising the basketball
teams to boost school spirit and increase
game attendance. On Founder's Day, the
cheerleaders appeared with President
Berendzen and distributed balloons.
Seager hopes to take the squad to a
training camp this summer to learn new
techniques, assorted mounts, safety and
ways to bolster school spirit.
The twelve students who made up the
squad were: Kelly Bonsor, Kelly
Gaughan, Steve Morowitx, Shawn
Jackson, Joel Ostrom, Sherri Sallici,
Susan Stern, Tina Corignati, Jennifer
Spence, Pam Thomas and Karen
Witcher.
Amy Elstein
1985 Talon contributing writer
Cheerleaders
Something to cheer about
162
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AUvs.
Navy
L, 18-2
Navy
Tie, 7-7
Towson State
L, 9-3
George Washington
W, US
Richmond
L, 7-3
Richmond
W, 11-2
George Mason
L, 9-3
George Mason
W, 4-1
George Washington
I, 17-8
Rider
L, 23-6
East Carolina
L, 7-1
East Carolina
L, 17-3
Maryland
L, 13-10
George Mason
L, 8-4
William and Mary
L, 9-8
William and Mary
L, 11-7
Howard
W, 5-3
Georgetown
L, 10-3
Richmond
L, 12-7
Delaware
L, 16-5
Towson State
I, 21-8
Towson State
W, 10-9
Howard
L, 7-2
Georgetown
W. 10-7
William and Mary
L, 12-3
UNC-Wilmington
L, 9-4
UNC-Wilmington
L, 17-4
UNC-Wilmington
L, 13-0
lames Madison
L.5-4
James Madison
L, 15-0
lames Madison
L, 14-2
Coach Dee Frady liked what he saw
at a high school All-Star game in
Baltimore's Memorial Stadium. He
was looking at right-handed
center-fielder Paul Gryzb. At Thomas
Stone High School in Waldorf, Md.,
Gryzb was selected to the All-County
team three years in a row. His last two
seasons, he was named All-Conference
and was chosen the Crown All-Star
centerfielder for the state of Maryland
his senior year when his team won the
state championship. Yet Frady had to
wonder if Gryzb would produce similar
results playing Division I baseball at
American.
Gryzb answered Frady's doubts his
sophomore year. Gryzb was named the
team's Most Valuable Player after batting
.395, leading the Eagles in nine offensive
categories and being named All-ECAC
South Conference. A very productive
year: one that would be enough for most
players, but not Gryzb. He went on to
lead the nation in doubles-per-game
average and was the third-toughest in
the nation to strike out. At one point
this year, Gryzb was 17th in the nation
in batting and led the nation in doubles.
It appears that Frady got a quality
player for his scholarship money. More
importantly, AU received a quality
student.
Working for a degree in Real Estate
and Urban Development, Gryzb is
enrolled in classes like corporate
finance, international business and real
estate strategy. He knows it would be
easier to take classes like sociology and
golf, but Gryzb is here for an education
that will allow him to earn a townhouse
in the D.C. suburbs and a Porsche
convertible. Of course, a baseball
contract could pay for them much
sooner, so Gryzb has decided to see just
how far he can go in the field of baseball
before entering the business world.
Marc Grossman
1985 Talon contributing writer
Baseball
An American pastime
163
I
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AUvs.
Shenandoah
W, 91-63
George Washington
L, 83-59
Navy
L, 84-68
New Mexico State
L, 75-69
Columbia
W, 70-56
Georgetown
L, 86-64
Rutgers
L, 89-70
Davis & Elkins
W, 80-54
George Mason
Florida Southern
L, 104-78
I, 94-86
Eastern Illinois
W, 80-79
Delaware
L, 81-73
James Madison
L, 64-60
UNC-Wilmington
L, 75-71
Richmond
L, 74-58
Pennsylvania
L, 86-71
Towson State
W, 85-69
William and Mary
W, 64-62
]ames Madison
L, 70-68
George Mason
UNC-Wilmington
L, 77-71
I, 68-53
East Carolina
W, 79-62
Navy
William and Mary
L, 81-61
L, 89-61
East Carolina
W, 88-79
Richmond
L, 83-62
Monmouth
W, 84-81
Richmond
L, 74-68
Statistically, the difference between
a 6-22 record and an 8-19 record
is a scant 0.82. But for the 1984-85
men's basketball team, the amount of
growth was greater than two more wins.
A seventh-place finish in the
ECAC-South division and a quick exit
from the playoffs (a 74-68 loss to
Richmond) may not appear to be the
vanguard of improvement, but the
Eagles' major difference from last season,
according to head coach Ed Tapscott, is
not in the won-loss record.
"I'm disappointed in the record
because we improved a lot more than
the record showed," Tapscott says. "The
young fellas really came in and did
well." The "young fellas" included three
freshmen: guard Mike Sampson, who
averaged 8.5 points per game and 6.5
assists; guard Chuck West, who scored
8.3 points a game and forward Eric
White, who averaged 5.9 rebounds a
game.
"This was just a much better team to
watch," Tapscott says, but the team
wasn't the only thing easier on the eye.
The conference itself was more
enjoyable than the East Coast
Conference, where NCAA representative
Lehigh won the hearts of thousands, but
nonetheless stumbled in the tournament
with a 12-18 record).
Tapscott cites attitude, aggression and
intensity as major improvements, and
calls the victory over Eastern Illinois in
the consolation game of the Southern
United First Federal Classic the team's
best victory. The 80-79 win came against
a team that eventually finished 20-10.
Leading the team in scoring was
sophomore guard Frank Ross, who
scored a season-high 28 in a 94-68 loss
to Florida Southern. Ross averaged 14.7
points per game despite missing nine
games with injuries.
Ross mirrors Tapscott's enthusiasm for
the future. "This year we made some
noise," he says. "Next year we are going
to make some music."
David Aldridge
1985 Talon contributing writer
Men's basketball
Youth sparks improvement
a m p u
165
Women's basketball
266
Time is on their side
a m p it s
All vs.
Maryland
L, 66-43
Towson State
L, 76-68
James Madison
L, 69-62
Georgetown
L, 79-69
Delaware
W, 3 OT 73-69
Man/land Eastern Shore
W, 61-57
Virginia Commonwealth
W, 52-50
Loyola
W, 66-U
Howard
W, 80-64
UNC-Wilmington
L, 73-55
East Carolina
L, 70-55
Navy
L, 66-60
Randolph-Macon
W, 80-66
Richmond
W, 70-55
James Madison
L, 66-U
Drexel
W, 76 50
East Carolina
L, 77-62
UNC-Wilmington
L, OT, 85-80
George Washington
W, OT, 79-71
Lafayette
W, OT, 64-61
George Mason
W, 68-63
George Mason
L, 78-69
William and Mary
L, 65-56
Richmond
L, 73-67
UNC-Wilmington
L, 90-63
The 1984-85 women's basketball
season was marked by flashes of
excellence and periods of
inconsistency.
The team improved on last year's
10-18 record, finishing 12-14. More
importantly, the Eagles knew that time is
on their side. They started two freshmen
and three sophomores and all will return
next season.
The improved record is more
impressive considering the team
switched from the East Coast Conference
to the much tougher ECAC-South. This
season, the Eagles defeated both
Lafayette and Delaware, leaders in the
ECC.
Sophomore guard Jody Thornton is
one of the players who helped the team
progress. Already the team's all-time
assist leader, the five-foot-eight inch
point guard from Pittsburg, PA was the
ECAC-South leader in assists this
season. She was also selected to the
All-Conference team and led AU in
scoring, averaging 14.4 points a game.
"Jody really took over the leadership
role on this team," says head coach
Linda Ziemke. "Already she is one of
the top players in the conference, and
she still has room to improve."
The team also benefitted from one of
its best recruiting years. Freshman Beth
Shearer was named to the
All-Conference second team, and four
times during the season she was chosen
as the ECAC-South Rookie of the
week. She finished the season among the
league leaders in scoring, rebounding,
field goal percentage, and free throw
percentage.
"It's rare for a freshmen to come in
and immediately become one of the top
players in a conference," says Ziemke.
"But that is exactly what Beth has
done."
Two other freshmen who performed
well this season were center Kia Cooper
and guard Janine Lorimer. Cooper was
twice named the conference Rookie of
the Week and set a team record for the
most rebounds in a season (222).
"Kia is the type of center we need
because she is so aggressive," says
Ziemke. "And Janine has been our
sparkplug coming off the bench to give
us a big lift."
Despite all their talent, the Eagles
trailed off at the end of the season,
losing their last four games.
"Our inexperience really hurt us in
the tournament," Ziemke says. "We
were playing against teams who had a
great deal more of tournament
experience and it showed in our play."
Mark Williams
1985 Talon contributing writer
167
AU Golf
338 Roanoke
321
Kent State
346
325 Roanoke
319
Kent State
336
341 Roanoke
334
Kent State
339
416 GWU
408
GU
421
406 GWU
405
GU
410
412 GWU
391
GU
408
412 Catholic
406
421 Delaware
398
Navy
412
318 G. Mason
336
314 G. Mason
331
Overall record: 6-11
The influx of freshmen talent
combined with the experience of
two upperclassmen to give the
cross-country team one of its better
years.
The runners won four of their eight
matches; a drastic improvement over last
year's record of 2-10.
Freshmen Tim Noonan and David
Wright and Dave Caloppe, a senior, and
junior team captain Tom VanBuren
powered the Eagles to a fourth-place
finish in the ECAC-South
Championships.
The women's team did not enjoy the
organization of the men's team, but
Karen Gallagher put in outstanding
performances for them.
If the steady improvement continues,
the team can look forward to more
successful seasons.
Richard O'Brien
1985 Talon contributing writer
Cross Country/Golf
HVJ
Field hockey
A year to learn from
It was a season of disappointments
and of frustrations.
The 1984 field hockey team
suffered disappointment after
disappointment to turn what looked like
a promising season in the heat of August
into a losing 7-9-1 by the time the
November cold rolled around.
AU had good reason to be optimistic.
The team, coming off of a successful
6-3-4 season, had the winning
combination of experience and
leadership with the return of four
seniors.
The Eagles started with two easy wins
but then injuries and a severe offensive
drought combined to send them on a
seven-game losing streak that included
five shutouts.
However, when things looked bleak,
AU fought back with three wins in their
last four games.
Frustration returned in post-season
play when the Eagles participated in the
highly-respected Old Dominion
tournament.
The game and the season were
virtually over in four short minutes.
Richmond scored two quick goals and
the Eagles could not come from behind.
It was simply a season of frustration.
Cammy Clark
1985 Talon contributing writer
AUvs.
Mt. St Mary's
W.3-1
Mary Washington
W.3-1
Maryland
L, 3-0
Lock Haven
1,3-0
Towson State
Tie, 1-1
Temple
L, 6-0
Ursinus
L, 3-0
Loyola
W, 5-0
Virginia Commonwealth
L.2-0
Goucher
W,3-0
Richmond
1,5-2
Georgetown
L, 2 OT, 2-1
Drexel
W.5-0
Rider
W,3-2
Delaware
L.5-0
LaSalle
W, OT 3-1
169
AUvs.
Nevada-Las Vegas
L, OT, 0-1
San Jose State
W, 2-1
Fresno State
L, OT, 1-3
Maryland
W, 3-0
William and Mary
W, 1-0
Georgetown
W, 6-0
Hoivard
L, 2-0
UNC-Wilmington
W, 3-2
East Carolina
W, OT, 2-1
Loyola
L, 0-1
George Washington
W, 2-1
Towson State
W, 7-0
Catholic
W, 7-0
George Mason
Tie, 1-1
James Madison
W, 4-1
Old Dominion
W, 4-1
Navy
Tie, 1-1
Richmond
W, 5-0
George Mason
W, 2-1
Virginia
Tie, OT 0-0
Soccer
Flying high on success
The 1984 season was a banner year
for the AU soccer team. Coach
Pete Mehlert's squad racked up a
13-4-3 record, including a victory over
rival George Mason in the first round of
the NCAA tournament before getting
knocked out by the fourth-ranked
Virginia in a match that was only settled
in a penalty kick shootout after 100
minutes of 0-0 play.
The Eagles were led by co-captains
Michael Brady and Steve Giordano.
Junior striker Brady had a stellar season,
setting both the AU single-season and
career scoring marks, and recorded nine
game-winning goals. Goalkeeper
Giordano finished out his prolific AU
career as AU's all-time leader in saves
and shutouts. Other players who enjoyed
an excellent season were seniors Vasken
Demirjian, Greg McConnell, Paul
Tarricone and underclassmen
Abdulwhab al-Khaldi, Fernando Iturbe,
Keith Trehy, Glen Buchanan, Henry
Wagner, Mike Russell and Gary Sisto.
The season started slowly for the
Eagles, with the low point a 2-0 loss to
Howard University. AU failed to mount
any offensive threats, as the team's
record fell to 4-3. The Eagles rebounded
in the North Carolina rain, surviving a
tropical storm and beating ECAC-South
opponents UNC-Wilmington 3-2 and
East Carolina 2-1 in dramatic
come-from-behind fashion. After a
disappointing 1-0 loss to Loyola, the
team went on a tear, winning or tieing
ten straight matches before the
season-ending loss to Virginia. The
winning streak included routs of
Towson States (7-0), Richmond (5-0),
James Madison and Old Dominion (4-1
each).
The Eagles enjoyed playing their home
games on Reeves field, winning all six
home games by a total score of 28-2. The
squad shared the co-championship of
the ECAC-South with George Mason, as
the Eagles out-hustled the Patriots
enroute to a 1-1 regular-season tie.
The NCAA bid, the third for the
Mid-Atlantic Coach of the Year Mehlert,
marked AU as one of the top 20 soccer
teams in the nation. The thrill-packed
2-1 tournament victory over George
Mason marked Mehlert's men as the top
soccer team in the nation's capital.
Glen Bolger
1985 Talon contributing writer
171
Soccer fans, teammates and coaches
are still talking about a shot that
all-time Eagles scorer Michael
Brady took against Towson State, a game
AU won 6-0. Brady scored several goals
that day, but fans were buzzing about a
blast that did not even go in. Somehow,
with his back to the goal, the junior
striker flicked the ball to his right foot as
he turned with an ever-present defender
on his back, and pounded the ball wide
of the post, making a near goal out of an
almost impossible situation.
AU's Ail-American Brady is used to
Brady is not the selfish ego-
tist most top scorers are.
He finished tied for second
for most assists.
impossible situations. Draped with
defenders, kicked at and pulled down,
the redoubtable Brady, who was born in
the States but grew up in soccer-crazy
England, scored a record 22 of the
Eagles' single-season record of 48, and
recorded nine game-winning goals.
However, Brady is not the selfish
egotist most top scorers are. He finished
tied for second for most assists. His
leadership on the field was evident as he
exhorted teammates and played despite
an injured thigh that was heavily taped.
His exploits have been recognized in a
manner befitting a goal king. After being
named a first team All-American as a
sophomore, Brady was inexplicably
relegated to the second team, but still
took the Most Valuable Player of the
ECAC-South trophy home. Perhaps an
even bigger thrill was an invitation to
play for the U.S. National team that will
represent America in World Cup
competition.
Glen Bolger
1985 Talon contributing writer
Soccer
Michael Brady — collecting banners and
minding his manners
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AU Men vs.
Mary Washington
W, 79-45
Georgelcnun
W, 73-40
Howard
W, 69-44
Rider
L, 64-49
James Madison
I, 65-37
Towson
W, 60-52
Delaware
W, 58-53
Loyola
W, 50-43
]ohns Hopkins
L, 58-50
East Carolina
L, 66-46
Richmond
W, 60-52
AU Women vs.
Mary Washington
W, 68-45
Georgetown
W, 65-48
Hoivard
W, 49-9
James Madison
L, 76-33
Delaware
L, 75-34
Loyola
W, 48-45
Navy
L, 72-52
Bucknell
L, 76-27
]ohns Hopkins
L, 70-43
Towson
W, 77-63
George Washington
L, 75-41
East Carolina
L, 64-48
Richmond
L, 83-23
Swimming
Making a splash
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AU Men vs.
Georgetown
L2-7
Navy
LO-9
Towson State
LO-9
Salisbury State
L2-7
George Mason
LO-9
Drexel
W9-0
George Washington
LO-9
Loyola
W 6-3
AU Women vs.
Bucbiell
W 8-1
Radford
L4-5
Old Dominion
LO-9
George Mason
W6-3
Mary Washington
T4A
Richmond
LO-9
ECAC-South Tournament
7 of 7
Georgetown
L3-6
Tennis
Netters give solid performance
175
AUvs.
York Invitationals
finished third out of
12
Eastern Nationals,
finished 7 out of 20
Navy Invitationals
, finished
•ighth out c
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Loyola
W
, 44-0
Lafayette Invitational, finished third of t
Maryland
W,
21-18
George Washingto
i
w,
37-14
Virginia
L,
25-16
Wilkes Open, finis
hed seventh of 13
Golden Ram Invitational, finished fourtl
of
7
Drexel
L,
24-16
William and Mary
L,
29-10
Johns Hopkins
W
,50-0
West Chester
L
, 24-2
Duke
W,
22-18
Howard
w,
27-16
Old Dominion
L,
24-14
Shippensberg
W,
30-18
Capital Collegiate
Conference
Won the title
James Madison
L,
24-13
LaSalle
W,
22-17
Virginia Tech
W
, 28-9
VMI
w,
22-15
Eastern Regionals,
finished tt
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Wrestling
Grappling with injuries and weight
176
When classes started in
September, the AU wrestlers
were lifting weights three
times a week and rolling around on the
mats twice a week. They were easing
into the season, getting their bodies
ready for several months of bruising
hand-to-hand combat.
In October, the Eagles practiced every
afternoon. Practice begins with
stretching, loosening the muscles and
ligaments for the forceful twisting and
bending yet to come. But no matter how
much stretching, every wrestler must go
through part of the season with an
injury. It's inevitable. One is bound to
get hurt when he fights every day for six
months.
After stretching, the wrestlers drill
moves over and over: take-downs,
counters, reversals, escapes and pinning
combinations. The goal is to learn to hit
a move instinctively; there will be
instances in a match when there's no
time to think, barely time to react. So
the wrestlers must drill their moves over
and over and over: a double, a single, a
headlock, a stand-up, a roll, a granby, a
souple, a high crotch, a duck-under, an
arm drag, a bear hug, a sprawl, a knee
tap, a pancake, a Japanese Fly Whizzer,
a Reyes trip, a cradle, a cheap tilt, a
chicken wing, a half-nelson . . .
After the drilling comes the fun part of
practice: beating each other up, or in
wrestling terminology, going live. The
first round of live wrestling starts out
with "Shark Bait," where each wrestler
in a group of four or more wrestles his
teammates one after the other without a
break. After the live wrestling, the
wrestlers should to be very tired. That's
when they finish practice with twenty
minutes of conditioning: spinning,
sit-throughs, sprints, push-ups and
hit-'ems. The goal is to become
completely exhausted, because wrestling
is said to be among the most grueling of
sports, second only to the Tour de
France (a 30-day bicycle race), and a
triathalon, (running a marathon,
swimming two miles and biking 50
miles).
After practice, any wrestler who is
weighing a little more than he should
will don a rubber suit and a sweat suit
and jump rope, run, or wrestle extra
are you playing tonight?" the proper
response is "We don't play, we wrestle."
At American, they have been wrestling
better every year since Dave Miller took
over as head coach. Five years ago, AU
was struggling to win half its matches.
This year, the Eagles finished 12-5,
which includes victories over such
traditional powers as Maryland, Duke,
Shippensburg, Virginia Military Institute
and cross-town rival, George
The goal is to learn to hit a move instinctively.
There will be instances in a match when there's no
time to think, barely time to react. So they must drill
their moves over and over.
matches to lose a few more pounds in
order to qualifying for his weight class.
Eating dinner is often the high point of a
wrestler's day because he is often
engaged in the battle of the bulge, that
is, he needs to maintain a certain weight
throughout the year.
What's it all for? Certainly not fame
and fortune. There is no "real"
professional wrestling to which a college
wrestler can aspire. And wrestling
matches in D.C. don't exactly headline
the Post or USA TODAY. Yet to
thousands of high school and college
athletes, wrestling is a religion. With its
combination of smoothly executed
moves and powerful holds, wrestling,
the oldest sport, has for centuries
attracted a special breed of competitor. If
an uninformed fan asks a wrestler, "Who
Washington. American also sent a
representative to the national
championships. Freshman Chuck Toler
placed second in the Eastern Regionals
and was selected as a wild card entrant
to the tournament, where he lost in the
first round to the eventual fourth-place
finisher.
If the trend continues, AU may soon
be considered an Eastern wrestling
power. "No doubt about it," exclaims a
slightly biased Miller. "I'll bet my ranch
on it."
Mike Willner
1985 Talon contributing writer
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NROLLMENT at AU this year
is slightly down from last
year, but there are 12% more
members of the freshman
class. Total enrollment this
year stands at 10,918, down from 11,295
last year. The class of '88 has 933 members,
102 more than when the class of '87 en-
tered the university. Here is the breakdown
of the figures:
Undergraduate 4,473
Masters 2,239
Doctoral 417
Nondegree 1,871
Law 1,091
Washington Semester 442
Other 385
TOTAL 10,918
(Figures are courtesy of The American Scene
and are for fall, 1984.)
HE 14 meal plan is the most
T popular of the Marriott Din-
ing Service choices, with 746
students on it. It is followed
by the 19 meal plan, with
715, the 10 with 309, 233 on the 5 lunches
program and 185 choosing the regular 5
meal plan. (Figures are courtesy of Dining
Services.)
HERE never seems to be
T enough parking on campus
for all those who hold AU
permits. Here's the rundown
on the number of permit hol-
ders there are for each category:
Commuter student 1,162
Reserved faculty/staff 439
General faculty/staff 370
Resident student 244
Evening 149
Temporary 141
Washington Semester 77
(Figures are courtesy of the Office of Park-
ing and Traffic.)
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. . . The freshman return rate is 84% . . .
. . . Of the total enrollment, approximately
48% are male and 52% are female . . .
. . . 550 students transferred to AU at the
beginning of the year . . .
. . . There are 78 student organizations on
campus . . .
. . . 880 people work as staff members full-
time, 1,200 are part-time . . .
. . . Approximately 60% of students re-
ceive some form of financial aid . . .
OSTS continue to rise at good
Col' Camp AU, with the tuition
costs for a full time under-
graduate approaching
$4,000. The following is a
listing of the various fees:
Undergraduate
Full-time (12-7 sem. hours) $3,800
Part-time (per sem. hour) 254
Graduate (per sem. hour) 267
Law
Full-time (12-17 sem. hours) 4,000
Part-time (per sem. hour) 296
Nondegree (per sem. hour) 254
Residence Halls
Single 1,371
Double 1,111
Triple 852
Nebraska Hall
Single 1,602
Double 1,259
Meal Plan
Five 284
Ten 614
Fourteen 691
Nineteen 717
(These fees are quoted from the official AU
catalog, and are current for the 1984-85
academic year.)
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AU parking violation
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1985 Talon
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six pack of Diet Coke
2.49
H.B. Quick's dinner
3.18
Polo shirt
32.00
one semester hour
254.00
gram of cocaine
100.00
movie ticket
5.00
first class postage
.22
record album
6.99
Metrorail fare (non-rush hour)
.80
Playboy magazine
3.00
laundry in dorm (one wash & dry!
1.25
cover charge at The Tavern
1.00
pitcher of beer at The Tavern
3.75
AU sweatshirt
18.95
The Eagle
free
sub sandwich at Sutton Place
2.99
Michael Jackson concert tickets
30.00
can of soda from machine
.50
USA Today
.35
pizza bagels at The Tavern
.75
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What's
IN OUT
By State
boxers
Swatch
briefs
Timex
State
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Eddie Murphy
Richard Pryor
afterplay
foreplay
Arkansas
flats
high heels
California
amphitheatre
teddy bears
The Quad
cabbage patch dolls
Colorado
Connecticut
insie belly buttons
outsie belly buttons
District of Columbia
the Madonna look
the JAP look
Florida
Ethiopia
Vietnam
Georgia
Leonard
Letts
Hawaii
MCI
tofutti
sushi
AT & T
ice cream
red meat
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Adnan Khashoggi
Stafford Cassell
Kansas
Khashoggi Center
BMW
croissants
neon
Clendenen, Cassell and Fort Myer
Corvette
Wonder bread
earth tones
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
cocaine
pot
Michigan
health
smoking
Minnesota
sex
studying abroad
drugs
dropping out
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
tanning salons
the sun
Nebraska
condoms
the pill
Nevada
lacrosse
jogging
New Hampshire
baggy cotton pants
herbal tea
tight jeans
Lipton
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
TV
newspapers
North Carolina
WAVE-TV
The Eagle
North Dakota
wine coolers
chocolate
beer
vanilla
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Quad watching
Quad lounging
1986 Talon
1985 Talon
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Guam
Puerto Rico
Virgin Islands
U.S. Citizen/Foreign Resident
Total
Student Distribution
By Country
Country
Afghanistan
Algeria
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belgium
Benin
Bolivia
Botswana
Brazil
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Cape Verde Islands
Chile
China
Colombia
Costa Rica
Cuba
Cyprus
Czechoslovakia
Denmark
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Estonia
Ethiopia
Finland
France
Gabon
Germany (West)
Ghana
Great Britain
Greece
Guatamala
Guinea
Total
Guyana
2
Haiti
31
Honduras
30
Hungary
7
Iceland
1
India
2
Indonesia
8
Iran
18
Iraq
3
Ireland
7
Israel
2
Italy
14
Ivory Coast
4
Jamaica
23
[apan
1
Jordan
9
Kenya
25
Korea
1
Kuwait
20
Latvia
11
Lebanon
42
Liveria
7
Libya
2
Malagasy Republic
3
Malawi
1
Malaysia
3
Mali
7
Mauritania
12
Mexico
22
Morocco
19
Nepal
1
Netherlands
16
Netherlands Antilles
2
New Zealand
33
Nicaragua
15
Nigeria
29
Norway
3
Oman
38
Pakistan
21
Panama
11
Paraguay
1
Peru
4
Philippines
6
Poland
18
Portugal
2
Qatar
2
Rwanda
44
Saudi Arabia
26
Senegal
105
Sierra Leone
5
Singapore
1
Somalia
9
South Africa
16
Spain
11
Sri Lanka
15
Sudan
33
Surinan
43
Swaziland
10
Sweden
77
Switzerland
22
Syria
1
Taiwan
44
Tanzania
8
Thailand
3
Trinidad & Tobago
1
Tunisia
2
Turkey
22
Uganda
1
United Arab Emirates
1
USSR
24
Uraguay
26
Venezuela
2
Vietnam
10
Yemen
2
Yemen, P.D.R. of
2
Yugoslavia
12
Zaire
48
Zambia
3
Zimbabwe
3
Stateless/Unknown
19
21
Total
5
57
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AU Trivia
HE following is a collection
Tof AU trivia compiled by Uni-
versity Archivist Bill Ross.
See how well you know the
university:
1) For whom is Ward Circle named?
2) In what year was AU chartered by Con-
gress?
3) Name the U.S. President who laid the
cornerstone for the McKinley
Building.
4) What is the oldest building on the AU
campus?
5) Who preceeded Dr. Richard Berendzen
as president of AU?
6) Which U.S. President spoke at the offi-
cial opening of the University in 1914?
7) In what year did the College of Liberal
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dent.
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Poll Results
S Greek life making a come-
/back at AU? Many recent
magazine articles claim that
the number of students in-
volved in fraternities and
sororities across the nation is steadily ris-
ing. How does the Greek community at AU
compare to the national trend? Of those
who responded to the 1985 Talon poll, less
than 9% belong to one of the twelve soror-
ities and fraternities. Affiliation with
Greek organizations is not as significant at
AU as it is on other campuses, which is
perhaps due to AU's diversified popula-
tion.
HE majority of AU students
T(just over 67%) have ex-
perimented with illegal
drugs. Pot, cocaine and speed
were indicated as being the
most prevalent, although the survey did
not ask if the respondent was a regular user
or how often such drugs were used. In re-
cent surveys done nationally on college
campuses, use of illegal drugs has been
declining, while alcohol consumption has
risen.
In the fall of the year, the
editors of the 1985 Talon
conducted a poll of student
opinions. The results of
this poll are presented on
this and the following
pages. In addition, in-
formation related to the re-
sults is presented.
U students are not falling in
Aline with what seems to be a
national trend among stu-
dents towards conservatism.
80% reported they voted for
the Mondale/Ferraro ticket, with only 16%
supporting Reagan/Bush. Students also
say they consider themselves to be more
liberal than most, with over 70% saying
they are moderate liberal, liberal or very
liberal.
O you favor a national drink-
Ding age of 21? Do you favor
tougher drunk driving laws?
These are two of the quer-
tions that appeared on the
1985 Talon poll. Most students (about
80%) do not favor a national drinking age
of 21, but an overwhelming majority
(almost 100%) do want to see tougher
drunk driving laws enacted. AU students
clearly support keeping drunk drivers off
the road.
ELIGION does seem to be
R making a comeback among
young adults nationwide,
and the same is true at AU.
Most students (almost 70%)
do consider themselves religious, regard-
less of whether they regularly attend reli-
gious services.
The variety of religions and denomina-
tions represented on campus is about as
diversified as it is throughout the world. A
few, however, including Catholic, Jewish
and Methodist, are slightly more preva-
lent.
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Poll Results
LMOST 70% of AU students
A read a newspaper daily.
The Washington Post is
the most commonly read, fol-
lowed by USA Today and The
New York Times.
"Bloom County" is the leader in the
favorite comic strip category, closely fol-
lowed by "Doonesbury."
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Universal Press Syndicate. All rights reserved.
212
Poll Results
TUDENTS were asked to fill
Sin the blanks to the end of two
sentences. Some of the re-
sponses are rather interesting:
// there is one thing in this
country that you could make disappear, what
would it be?
— the nuclear threat
— men
— capitalism
— poverty
— Ronald Reagan (tied with Jerry Fal-
well as the most popular answer)
— cancer
— term papers
— parking meters
— soggy french fries
— racism
— violence
— active sperm
— New Jersey
— MTV
— diaper rash
— Republicans
— my roomate
— the Defense Department
Although I hate to admit it, secretly I . . .
— want Nancy Reagan
— feel as though I'm not contributing to
bettering the world
want to get married someday
am a stubborn, pig-headed fool
love sex
believe AU is a great school
am not as informed as I should be
contemplate suicide
want to be rich and powerful
am a communist
believe space people read our mail
love getting compliments
wish Bruce Springsteen wasn't such a
bleeding heart
• would like to father Lisa Hartman's
child
liked Jimmy Carter
- depend on TV too much
get backaches after sex
bite my fingernails
- am extremely insecure
want to paint myself purple and pre-
tend I'm a grape and ask someone to
eat me all up
• miss my childhood
drink Pepsi and milk
- am a mailbox waiting to be opened
- am a lusty wench
HE 1985 Talon poll indicates
Tthat the favorite television
shows on campus are "Hill
Street Blues," "Late Night
With David Letterman" and
"Dynasty." "M*A*S*H" and "Cheers"
were also top contenders. USA Today did
their own survey and found that at the 14
colleges they visited, the favorite TV
shows were:
"Late Night With David Letterman"
"Dynasty"
"Dallas"
"Cheers"
"Hill Street Blues"
"All My Children"
"General Hospital"
"Monday Night Football"
"Leave it to Beaver"
TVERYONE has a favorite re-
cording artist, but getting a
group of people to agree on
one may be difficult. Billy
Joel, Bruce Springsteen and
Genesis were indicated on the survey to be
the most popular, but answers ranged from
Rod Stewart to Eddy Grant, from Prince to
Jethro Tull and from the Talking Heads to
Luther Vandross.
HE 57th Academy Awards
Ceremony took place on
March 25, 1985. "Amadeus"
was the outstanding winner,
with 8 awards. And the win-
ners were . . .
Best picture — "Amadeus"
Best director — Milos Forman —
"Amadeus"
Best actor — F. Murray Abraham —
"Amadeus"
Best actress — Sally Field — "Places in
the Heart"
Best supporting actor — Haing S. Ngor
— "The Killing Fields"
Best supporting actress — Dame Peggy
Ashcroft — "A Passage to India"
Best original song — "I Just Called to
Say I Love You" — Stevie Wonder —
"The Woman in Red"
Honorary Award — James Stewart
213
Year in Review
A Dateline of National and International Events
September
The beginning of the fall semester
starts off with the Presidential race in
full swing. Ronald Reagan and George
Bush are nominated at the Republican
convention and Walter Mondale and
Geraldine Ferraro at the Democratic
convention. Defeated Democratic
candidates Gary Hart and Jesse Jackson
start working for the Mondale/Ferraro
ticket. Ferraro is the first woman to ever
run on a major ticket for vice president
of the United States . . .
. . . Concern mounts over the health of
Soviet leader Konstantine Chernenko. He
has not been seen in public since
mid-July but appears, looking frail and
tired, at an awards ceremony late in the
month. The Soviets appoint a new chief
of staff — no explanation is given as to
why . . .
. . . Religion and abortion become big
issues in the campaign as the race gets
hotter — only 8 weeks to go ...
October
... In the ongoing wave of terrorism, a
U.S. embassy is bombed in Beirut.
Twelve people are killed, thirty-five
wounded. This is the third such attack
on a U.S. embassy in seventeen months.
So far six U.S. embassies have been
attacked, all of the attacks connected in
some way to Lebanon . . .
. . . Reagan and Mondale meet for their
first debate. Mondale is the obvious
winner over what appears to be, a very
unprepared President . . .
. . . Terrorism is still on the rise as the
I.R.A. (Irish Republican Army) bombs a
hotel where Prime Minister of England,
Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet
members are staying. She is not hurt but
four people are killed and thirty-five are
wounded . . .
. . . Ironically, at the same time, the
Nobel Peace Prize is awarded. It is given
to Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa
for his courage and his nonviolent
nature . . .
. . . Reagan and Mondale meet for their
second debate. Many people are split as
to who won but generally Reagan is
believed to have come out slightly ahead.
Mondale makes an excellent showing in
a very close debate . . .
Year in Review written and compiled by
Rebecca Rennert, 1985 Talon editorial
assistant.
Top: Jesse |ackson.'P Papier
Bottom: Gary Hart/P. Papier
November
. . . Indira Gandhi, India's popular
leader, is assassinated by two of her
bodyguards. One more event in the
wave of terrorism to sweep the
world . . .
. . . Baby Fae is given a chance to live by
doctors who replace her defective heart
with that of a baboon. She becomes the
first infant to be given a simian heart . . .
. . . Reagan wins the election in a
landslide victory over Walter Mondale.
The final electoral vote is 525 to
13 . ..
. . . The space shuttle Discovery
continues to expand our horizons in
space. This time it recovers two stray
satellites . . .
. . . Many people are starving in Ethiopia
because of drought and famine. The U.S.
unleashes numerous relief efforts. It is
thought to be "the worst human disaster
in U.S. history" . . .
... A struggling Baby Fae dies after
twenty-one days with her new heart . . .
December
. . . U.S. banks are starting to lose their
power and prestige because of poor
management, over-zealous lending and
bad luck. People begin to wonder if this
is a repeat of history . . .
. . . George Shultz and Andrei Gromyko
agree to meet to discuss arms . . .
. . . Doug Flutie, Boston College
quarterback, is projected to win the
Heisman Trophy . . .
. . . William Schroeder becomes the only
living man with an artificial heart. He
seems to be doing very well . . .
... In India more than 2,500 people are
killed by a poison gas leak from a Union
Carbide insecticide plant. It raises
concerns about the storage of chemicals
and toxic wastes . . .
. . . Reagan unveils his new budget plans
with major cutbacks in social programs
and more money for defense. One of his
proposed cuts is in college student
aide . . .
. . . Apartheid protests are becoming
more prevalent. The racial situation in
South Africa angers many Americans . . .
Top: Walter Mondale (honorable mention. 19B5 Talon photography
contest)/P. Papier
Bottom: Geraldine Ferraro/courtesy of The Washington Post
215
Year in Review
January
. . . Time magazine chooses Peter
Ueberroth as their man of the year. He
coordinated the 1984 Olympic games . . .
. . . The Inaugural parade is cancelled
and the swearing-in ceremony is pulled
inside as temperatures in Washington,
D.C. go below 10°F. An estimated $13
million dollars goes to waste after it was
spent preparing for the festivities . . .
. . . There are an estimated two million
homeless Americans freezing in the
bitter cold of the winter . . .
February
. . . Reagan gives his first State of the
Union address of his new term. He
unleashes his budget plans for the
coming year. All of his plans hit the
middle class the hardest . . .
. . . The United States tries to crackdown
on the large amount of cocaine trade
between South America and the U.S. . . .
. . . The forty-eight day chess
tournament in the Soviet Union is called
to a halt due to weariness and
exhaustion of the players. Gary
Kasparov, the challenger for the title, is
infuriated by the decision by the
president of the World Chess Federation.
Kasparov, 21, is the youngest person to
ever compete for the title . . .
Top: President Ronald Reagan/R- Thomas
Bottom: lose Napoleon Duarte/courtesy of The Washmgloi
March
. . . The third artificial heart patient
survives surgery and seems to be doing
well as the second artificial heart
recipient, William Schroeder has his ups
and downs . . .
. . . The U.S. and the Soviet Union
prepare for arms talks. This will be the
first stand-off between the two
superpowers in fifteen months . . .
... In the ongoing acts of violence in
Beirut, a bomb explodes near a mosque
killing seventy-five people and
wounding two hundred and fifty.
Meanwhile, U.S. ships are sent on their
way to Beirut, possibly to evacuate all
Americans . . .
. . . The only National Theater in the
U.S. opens at the Kennedy Center. The
first performance was Shakespeare's,
"Henry IV" . . .
. . . Soviet leader Konstantine Chernenko
dies after eighteen months as leader of
the U.S.S.R. Four hours after his death,
Mikhail Gorbachev takes over as Soviet
leader. At 56 he is the youngest member
of the Politburo . . .
. . . Jose Napolean Duarte, President of
El Salvador, triumphs in the election
there . . .
April
. . .ABC is sold for $3.5 billion to
Capital Cities Communication, a
company one-fourth the size of ABC.
It is the biggest non-oil industry
takeover . . .
. . . Two CBS cameramen are killed in
Lebanon as the conflict in the Mideast
continues . . .
. . . The New York Subway Vigilante,
Bernard Goetz, is indicted for murder
after shooting teenage boys who, he says,
tried to mug him . . .
. . . Talk mounts about Ted Turner's
proposed takeover of CBS. All the gossip
has made the stock jump from $88 per
share to $111 per share in three
weeks . . .
. . . World War II is remembered forty
years later. Reagan agrees to visit a West
German cemetary in Bitburg where SS
troops are buried. This visit causes great
controversy among the American people.
Top: Mikhail Gorbachev/courtesy of the Soviet Embassy
Bottom: Dan Rather/courtesy of CBS Evening News
217
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One of the strengths of AU is its accessi-
bility to Washington, an international city
with diversity and culture. The District's
embassies, agencies, museums and thea-
tres extend our classrooms beyond the
campus, and Metro helps to make this
possible.
Not long after our arrival at AU, my
roommate and I took advantage of the con-
venient new metro shop at Tenleytown.
Eager to take in D.C., we trudged off, not
knowing we were about to learn the first of
many lessons: HOW TO RIDE THE METRO
LIKE A NATIVE.
Lesson #1: When trying to buy a metro
ticket, do not act surprised if the change
vendor continually spits back your dollar.
Smooth the wrinkles and patiently place
the dollar in the tempermental machine once
again.
Lesson #2: Do not, as we did, walk
happily into the metro station with lum-
ber, paint and nails from Hechinger's,
awkwardly forcing your way through the
metro gate.
We naively boarded the metro, rode to
Dupont Circle and took a bus from there to
AU. We got off the bus, full of pride that we
had conquered the D.C. public transporta-
tion system, little F's (for freshman) glow-
ing on our chests. But, as we soon learned,
Tenleytown is the closest metro stop to
AU.
Thus, Lesson #3: The shortest distance
between two points is a line . . . don't be a
fool and run around in circles.
LIKE A NATIVE
Lesson #4: Once on the metro, take out
The Washington Post, and begin reading
with a furrowed brow that says you're con-
cerned with the world situation. Do not
giggle excessively; people will suspect
you, and possibly glance up from their Post
to give you the eye.
Lesson #5: Finally, get off the train ana
hop onto the escalator. To look efficient,
walk swiftly up the stairs past the im-
mobile souls — after all, you have impor-
tant places to go, and people to see, and
things to do.
Carrie Earle
1985 Talon metro editor
The AU campus
seems only a
brief skid
through Embassy
Row to Dupont
Circle and to the
energetic cul-
tural heart of
Washington D.C.
Until this year, however, university
students weren't always able to enjoy
the innumerable excitements and
opportunities available in the na-
tion's capital, without perhaps trad-
ing more time and money than they
could comfortably afford. Because
the campus lacked easy access to
metrorail, the college crowd had to
queue for the "N" buses that went to
the Dupont Circle metro stop, where
students had to spend additional
time and money to reach their final
destinations.
On August 25, just prior to the be-
ginning of the academic year, the
Tenleytown metro station opened as
part of the Red Line extension
beyond the former last stop Van Ness-
UDC, and turned the tide from distant
Dupont to neighboring Tenley Circle.
Because it is only a 15 or 20 minute
walk from the main campus, and
merely minutes away from the Im-
maculata campus (which will be-
come university property during the
summer of 1986) the Tenleytown sta-
tion provides efficient and immedi-
ate access to D.C. for only 80(£ (non-
rush hour fare).
In addition, the university's Gener-
al Services and Auxiliary Enterprises
office offers a convenient shuttle ser-
vice to the Tenleytown stop for all of
those students who prefer to deter
their walking exercise until they
reach their real destinations.
Whether students want down-
town, the mall, National Airport, or
elegant shopping districts like Mazza
Gallery, the Tenleytown stop can get
people where they want to go. Also,
in December, Metrorail's Red Line
service was opened all the way to
Shady Grove, Maryland, thereby
adding to the students' possibilities
for other off-campus excursions.
Jacqueline Brown
1985 Talon contributing editor
223
D.C. AT NIGHT:
Armed with a
list of bars
and two forms of
I.D., we venture
timidly down to
Wisconsin and 'M'
with fellow
freshpeople . . .
Catching the Magic
Freshman year. The first day on cam-
pus . . .
A few hours after we've said goodbye to
our parents and dumped our life's belong-
ings into our cell block, we ask our helpful
upperclassmen: "So what do we do on a
Friday night?" -^ —
Our helpful underclassmen point us in
the direction of Georgetown — "It's just
like Greenwich Village," they say. Armed
with a list of bars and two forms of I.D., we
venture timidly down to Wisconsin and
'M' with fellow freshpeople and our still
unfamiliar roommates (maybe a few
brewskis will loosen that dude up). We
head first for Annie's, which we have been
informed is for "serious party animals,"
and stand in a bewildered group at the bar,
dodging high speed beer bottles and falling
marines. We pretend to enjoy the crush of
bodies and the eardrum-shattering red-
neck music, and we drink beer with what
we hope is just the right kind of college air.
To keep the party mood going we walk
down the street to the Pleasure Chest
(another recommendation from our help-
ful upperclassmen), and nervously make
lame jokes about the milk chocolate breasts
and the inflatable dolls.
We head back into the throng, gawking at
the sideshows in the streets: Marines
standing on the corner checking out the
evening's inventory, punks waiting in line
for Rocky Horror at the Key Theater, yup-
pie couples with briefcases, and the preps
with the G.U. sweatshirts whom we avoid
like the plague.
Anxious to sample a typical Georgetown
pub, we make our way into Clyde's, also
very crowded. Now this is more what we
had in mind — dim candles, smoky haze
hanging in the air, the comforting chink of
glasses, overheard bursts of laughter
around us. As we settle in, a comforting
feeling of security steals over us and the
thought that this is a perfect moment in
time, that no world exists save for the peo-
ple around us at this perfect moment —
that nothing else is important but this
Georgetown night.
Our next year we become more sophisti-
cated during our jaunts to Georgetown (or
G-town, as we now casually refer to it). We
learn to avoid the teeming masses under
the Gold Dome, and the flower vendors
with the litany of "Rose for the pretty lady,
sir?" We imagine ourselves to be romantics
of a high order, and maneuver our succes-
sive romantic interests to candlelight din-
ners at the Foundry and Chez Odette. We
take midnight walks along the C&O Canal
and admire the lights reflected on the
Potomac.
And when payday rolls around, we may
decide to blow the money on that special
person of the moment and take them to
Blues Alley. Perhaps a bit influenced by
our recent reading of the Great Gatsby in
our 20th Century Lit. class, we sit at the
bar, smoke, listen to jazz, and tell ourselves
how cool we are.
We neglect our trips to G-town when we
are upperclassmen, under the pressures of
double majors, GPA upkeep, internships,
"career decisions." We forget the rush of
adrenaline that surprises us in the night air
of Georgetown, the moments frozen into
our heads that we think can't be repeated.
That's behind us now, we're not freshmen
anymore, not dreamy kids anymore.
As May approaches, the inevitable
separation looming closer, the thought
comes into our heads — let's try to catch
the Georgetown night again. We are afraid
maybe it won't be there when we go back —
maybe it really only existed in the imagina-
tion. But, walking down Wisconsin, the
night breeze coming in off the Potomac,
fragmented sounds of parties from open
doors of bars and clubs teasing us and
seducing us to join them — we know we
were right all along. The magic's still there.
Christine Kent
1985 Talon contributing writer
225
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Multi-ethnic, Bold and Alive
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Adams-Morgan is a part of New York
City tucked away in Washington. It is a
neighborhood where the sound of Arabic,
Cuban and Indian is commonplace. Its slo-
gan "Unity in Diversity" exemplifies its
multi-ethnic community. Adams-Morgan
is alive, bold and daring. It is bright and
loud, yet not overbearing. Political graffiti
is sprawled across an occasional wall:
"STOP CHEMICAL WARFARE IN CEN-
TRAL AMERICA," "NO MILITARY AID
TO EL SALVADOR." The Washington Post
described Adams-Morgan as "the urban
city that Washington never was and the
international city that Washington will be-
come."
Eager to immerse ourselves in this inter-
nationalism, my friend and I decided to
test the cuisine of the Red Sea, a reputable
Ethopian restaurant in Adams-Morgan.
We ordered Ethiopian dishes that neither
of us could pronounce, but we amused the
couple beside us trying to.
As we waited for our meal to be pre-
pared, we absorbed the rich atmosphere,
the elusive African music mingling with a
multitude of foreign tongues; and the di-
versity of the patrons: intellectuals discus-
sing Einstein's theory of relativity,
businessmen debating the stability of the
stock market, and Indian men talking with
great fervor.
At last our meal arrived, but on only one
plate. We discovered that in Ethiopian cul-
ture eating from the same plate strengthens
the bond of friendship and forbids the be-
trayal of the one who shares the plate with
you.
It didn't take long for me to notice the
absence of silverware. Our waitress
pointed to a pile of spongy bread called
"injera." She tore off a piece of it, sopped
up some lamb, and placed it into the mouth
of my friend. We caught on quickly and
were soon eating in the manner of the
Ethiopians.
Our meals finished and our appetities
satisfied, we headed back to AU feeling
happy to be in D.C., a living textbook
where we are able to turn to pages like
Adams-Morgan.
Carrie Earle
1985 Talon metro editor
227
ALEXANDRIA
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Historic Seaport Town
Mixing the Old with the New
Olde Towne Alexandria — historic,
charming and unique. This old seaport
town was established in 1749 by Scottish
merchants. Its strategic location and the
commerce of the Virginia tobacco made it
one of the leading ports in the U.S., second
only to New York and Boston.
Alexandria boasts many fine buildings
like the "old Presbyterian Meeting House,"
where many patriots gathered, the build-
ing where George Washington's funeral
was preached, and also the site of the tomb
of the unknown soldier of the Revolution-
ary War. It has the Old Market Square
which is the oldest continuously operating
marketplace in the country and the home
of Civil War hero Robert E. Lee.
Alexandria is rich in restaurants and
pubs from the Scotland Yard to the charm-
ing Cafe Du Port. The Fish Market, a favor-
ite seafood stop, captures much of Alexan-
dria's rich trading and maritime heritage.
Originally a boat landing two centuries
ago, its atmosphere is reminiscent of the
crowds of boisterous sailors that once ate
and drank there. The smell of the clam
chowder brings one back to yesteryears
when this town bustled with the excite-
ment of a busy seaport.
First approaching Olde Towne, I thought
I saw a bit of Georgetown in the quaint
architecture, but after being there for a few
hours, I knew I had been mistaken. Alexan-
dria is uniquely Alexandria with her many
antique shops, speciality stores and art gal-
leries. She charmingly mixes the old with
the new, holding on to her history, but yet
not neglecting revitalization.
Carrie Earle
1985 Talon metro editor
ANACOSTIA
Beyond the Monuments
The Less Picturesque Side of D.C.
Standing on the bus to Anacostia, I felt
guilty. Guilty for being white, guilty for not
having to "work hard for the money." The
only caucasion on the bus, I wondered
what these people thought of me. I drew in
a breath as I got off the bus. For the next few
hours, I would be the minority.
I didn't realize exactly how much I stood
out in the crowd, until I was approached by
a white man curious as to what I was doing
there. I explained I was doing a story,
whereupon he told me he was a lawyer and
an AU graduate. Interestingly enough, the
fact that I was from AU made it all the more
strange to him that I was there. He re-
marked, "I always thought AU was iso-
lated." I frowned and wondered, "Is the
university isolated or is it the students who
isolate themselves?"
The lawyer told me a lot about Anacos-
tia. He told me that it has the largest con-
centration of people who receive public
assistance in the D.C. area, that it has few
caucasions and that it is a basically poor
area, that Baptist and Catholic denomina-
tions are practiced by the majority, and
that the area is mainly residential with
small private businesses. He also pointed
out the absence of conveniences such as
supermarkets, movie theatres and a metro
stop.
What he didn't point out was what Ana-
costia did have: friendly people who were
willing to help. Walking by one home, I
came upon a girl watching her younger
sister happily twirling a baton. She gave
me a big smile and a hello.
I felt a strong sense of community there.
Even the McDonald's emphasized all that
Anacostia stood for. The interior was red,
white and blue, with a portrait of Martin
Luther King on one wall and one of
Frederick Douglass on the other.
The people of Anacostia are proud of
their heritage. Here the American Dream
isn't taken for granted or expected; it is
struggled for. From the lawns of Frederick
Douglass' home, one can see the rotunda of
the capitol. There the laws are made; here,
in Anacostia, they take effect.
Carrie Earle
1985 Talon metro editor
229
BETHESDA
Suburban Charm
With a Metropolitan Flavor
If Washington D.C. may be thought of as
a river of unique shops, small boutiques,
theatres and culture, Bethesda can be
thought of as one of several outflowing
streams that maintains more than a ripple
of character.
Bethesda is more residential than the
district. It is less hectic, but it still retains a
metropolitan flavor.
Bethesda has the usual metropolitan
attractions: Pizza Hut, McDonald's,
arcades, but has a hint of internationalism,
boasting such fine specialty shops as Le
Petit Paris. Upon opening the door to this
charming shop, I was overwhelmed by
the smell of fresh coffee, the auromas of
Irish Cream and French roasts. Browsing
up and down the aisles, I discovered deli-
cious and dainty cakes and cookies. Le
Petit Paris tempted me with French butter,
cheese and assorted teas.
But, my favorite discovery was the Cine-
ma 'N Drafthouse, a movie theatre with an
extra twist. Pink swivel chairs and tables
are clustered in front of a large screen. Prior
to the movie, music plays and color slides
flash before your eyes while a waitress
serves beer, wine and sangria. There is also
an interesting selection of snacks: chicken
fingers, eggrolls, a cheese plate and pop-
corn.
The Drafthouse is a good place to wind
down and relax. It exemplified the laid
back atmosphere of Bethesda, an escape
from the hustle and bustle of our busy capi-
tal city.
Beth Barak
1985 Talon contributing editor
CAPITOL HILL
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The Bureaucratic Boardgame
Playing with the Paper City
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Papers, papers, and more papers. Red
tape, deficits, bills to pass or not to pass . . .
Such is life on Capitol Hill.
A D.C. cabbie once told me that
Washington was a "paper city." He saw
our law-making process as a bureaucratic
board game with self-important men and
women competing for BOARDWALK and
PARK PLACE. To this cabbie, "the Hill"
was superficial, functioning mechanically
with a shuffling of papers here, and a pat
on the back there. He felt overwhelmed by
government — a machine that views him
as one of a mass, a thing, not a person. He
wondered if government cared about a "lit-
tle guy" like himself. I nodded and smiled,
trying to think of a scholastic answer, but
there was none.
A week later, I took a hometown friend to
see the city's sites. As we sat on the steps of
the Lincoln Memorial we felt so small, but
at the same time important — important to
be where the pulse of the nation throbs. We
walked along past the Washington Monu-
ment to the Capitol at the very end, the
climax of the mall. As we walked up the
steps of the Capitol, I too felt over-
whelmed, and little by little I came to
understand the cabbie. The Capitol is like a
vacuum that could at any moment suck up
all the monuments. It sits on the hill; the
supreme ruler, ready and willing to make
laws. There is much behind the shuffling
of papers and the pat on the back. The hand
that writes and the hand that pats can
shape the lives of a nation.
This famous neighborhood is what
Washington is all about: the governing of a
nation and sometimes of a world. What
would Washington be without the hill?
What would the body be without the heart?
Carrie Earle
1985 Talon metro editor
231
EMBASSY ROW
Behind the Iron Curtin
A Look Inside One of D.C.'s Embassies
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The black, iron gate of the Soviet embas-
sy was there before us. Of the U.S.S.R.'s
eight locations in Washington, this was the
only one that permitted visitors. My friend
and I looked at each other uneasily and
glanced at the guard.
"Can we just go in?" I asked him.
"Just push the button, ma'am."
I pushed a small white button on an in-
tercom box and a heavy Russian accent
said "Enter." We heard a click which un-
locked the gate. We fumbled with it, finally
got it open and approached the door. Here
we heard another click, opened the door
and went in.
Inside a small glassed-in cubicle sat a
tall, lean man. He asked us to state our
business, whereupon, I explained I was a
university student writing a story and just
needed some information. He kindly asked
me to verify "information." I smiled ner-
vously, "Pamphlets, brochures ..."
He then emerged from the cubicle and
showed us multitudes of pamphlets, flyers
and paperbacks. He insisted that we take as
much as we needed. He handed us two
cards to fill out which asked for our names
and addresses. I was skeptical and asked
why he needed this information. He said
merely for the purpose of conversing with
us. I didn't really believe that, but I still
filled out the card, not wanting to offend
him on his soil.
To keep the conversation going, my
friend asked if he liked being in the U.S. He
said that New York was "a terrible city,"
but neglected to mention Washington. We
did not press the issue.
We smiled and thanked him several
times for all his help. He showed us to the
door. Once outside, we began talking,
pondering the reasons for our nervousness
and skepticism. We realized how we have
been conditioned to fear and distrust the
Soviet Union. We came away feeling we
had broken this stereotype in our minds.
Carrie Earle
1985 Talon metro editor
232
GEORGETOWN
Antiquated Streets, New-vogue Novelty
But "Where is the Heart?"
As visitors roam the antiquated streets of
Georgetown, traveling upon an avenue of
new-vogue novelty, the contrast intrigues,
then intoxicates them. Newly christened
collegiates are swept by the currents cours-
ing through deeply-furrowed cobblestone
veins. Yet, do they ever wonder, "Where is
the heart?"
Perhaps in the beginning the student
may wander the sidestreets, wondering
where the source lies, yet their curiosity
fades with the daylight. All too willingly,
they wade in the waters of pretention, into
the depths of fantasy. All too willingly,
they relinquish responsibilities, those to
themselves as well as to others. They soon
become faceless entities more easily
assimulated with the "beautiful people."
Blissfully unaware they retreat from reali-
ty, for they have discovered Georgetown,
surging with superficiality.
Like a silk rose, Georgetown's flawless-
ness and mystique are also extraordinary
from a distance yet, the more careful the
examination, the more blatant the artifice,
the coldness, the deception.
After much searching, I've yet to find the
mechanical propagator of the shallow tides
drowning our generation. However, I have
glimped the "heart." It lies upon the faces
of the street vendors who sell flowers on
the walk. These embody life and are
offered with hope. Wake up and realize it is
within your reach.
Courtney Guthreau
1985 Talon contributing writer
233
PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE
Restoring Aging Facades
Revitalizing Our Nation's Main Street
It was John F. Kennedy who established
the Pennsylvania Avenue Commission,
which was to change the shape of that
world reknown avenue. Since then a lot
has been done to bring Kennedy's desire
much closer to a reality. What was once a
decaying main street is now a colorful and
bustling downtown.
The actualization of Kennedy's initial
enactment has been the Pennsylvania Ave-
nue Development Corporation. Formed in
1972, their job has been to restore the aging
facades instead of destroying them. Some
of their projects so far have been the Mar-
riott Hotel and the National Theatre, with
the Willard Hotel and the National Press
Building next in line. Other projects have
involved more extravagant innovations
such as The Shops at National Place and
the Old Post Office Pavilion, where visitors
are flooded with an abundance of fine
shops and restaurants.
As for the future, there is a lot in store for
what started as a small desire to invigorate
"the nation's Main Street." One billion
dollars has been spent but much more is
needed for upcoming projects including
the Gallery Row, the Sears House and the
Navy Memorial. Unfortunately some of the
projects lack the ability to attract visitors
because of their poor locations. But the
venture has been successful, and has
generated enthusiasm in its path. It looks
towards a promising future.
Nicole Lennox
1985 Talon contributing writer
SPRING VALLEY
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Bank Conspiracy and Supermarket Peace
In All's Own Backyard
Spring Valley provides AU with con-
veniences, as well as inconveniences.
I no longer can show my face at the
Spring Valley Drug Store. That store hated
me from the start. I started off on the wrong
foot, by buying a pack of lifesavers with a
ten: I needed change for the metro. Maybe I
shouldn't have specified that I wanted a
five, a two-dollar bill, two ones and a dol-
lars worth of change (4 dimes, 2 nickels
and a fifty cent piece, all printed in 1966,
my luck year).
I suspected from this shaky start that
they didn't appreciate my business. But,
being a good citizen, I still faithfully
bought my lifesavers there, and even an
occasional bar of soap. They apparently
didn't appreciate my efforts. They had the
nerve to bounce two of my checks . . . and
one check even twice.
As if that wasn't enough, they then plot-
ted a conspiracy against me with their
neighbors, NS&T. Soon, NS&T divulged
the terrible plan. THEY had overdrawn my
account! Impossible! When I left for break,
my account was loaded with $3.98. What
more could a bank ask for in a patron?
Feeling used and abused, I decided I
would take my business elsewhere — a
place where I didn't have to hide my head
in shame. Yes, you guessed it, the A&P.
Those A&P people are sincere. I love their
happy buttons proclaiming: "We're here to
help." These people are promoting "super-
market peace," the first link in that world-
wide chain of peace. I am personally
proud to shop with such saints.
The patrons too, serve in making the
atmosphere friendly. Not only is the super-
market useful in picking up food, it is a
great singles hangout. All you have to do is
coincidentally reach for that same ripe
tomato at the same time as another eligible
patron, or fret about the rising cost of toilet
paper with a fellow shopper.
If you feel you blend in and you need to
be noticed, there are a lot of ways to attract
attention. I once knocked down a whole
display case of Dinty-Moore Beef Stew. This
is the only incident I can recall when the
A&P workers were not overly enthusiastic
"to help." They glared at me and I quickly
fled to the peanut butter section.
Another good attention getter is to pre-
tend you are doing a commercial. Simply
pull out a jar of Skippy and a jar of Peter
Pan, then ask the customers which is more
"peanutty." It is a great way to meet peo-
ple, but beware of Skippy fanatics; they
usually have Annette Funicello com-
plexes. I must admit, that this too did not
please my A&P friends. This time I fled to
the meat section.
I decided to be more obvious. I sat among
the T-bones and roasts waiting to meet
"Mr. Wonderful." I was elated sitting
among the prime cuts, feeling I had finally
grasped the whole meat market concept.
However, my happiness soon dissolved
when the manager asked me to kindly re-
move myself. I tried to explain that I was
from Vermont and we have a certain fond-
ness for cows there, but to no avail.
Where to next, I sighed? I just don't see
why Spring Valley can't appreciate a mod-
el patron like myself.
Carrie Earle
1985 Talon metro editor
235
The American University Alumni Association
Welcomes our new Alumni, the Class of 1985
Visit us when you are on campus
Let us know your activities, awards, promotions
We will keep you informed of campus life
Don't disappear, we don't want to lose you
Send us your new address when you move or change jobs
Personal best wishes from
your Alumni Staff, the Officers of The Alumni Association
James H. Hammond, Jr.
President
Alumni Association
Anita F. Gottlieb
Director
University Relations
Janet L. Chitwood
Acting Director
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Congratulations Steven
and the class of '85
Eileen, Howard & Wendy Annis
Congratulations to my
daughter, Jocelyn Montanaro,
on her graduation.
God bless you.
Love,
Mom
Congratulations Graduates!
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Richard Berendzen
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College
of
Arts
and
Sciences
Frank Turaj, Dean of CAS
1 a
he largest of AU's four
colleges, the College of
Arts and Sciences, offers
degree programs in the
arts, humanities, natu-
ral and social sciences, education and
communication. A faculty of more than
400 full-time and adjunct professors, in-
cluding media professionals, artists, busi-
ness consultants, and visiting public fig-
ures, teach in the college's nineteen
schools and departments.
The college program stresses the need
for a solid, liberal arts background as a base
for any CAS student. With this in mind,
advisors help majors design programs that
will both expand their knowledge and pre-
pare them for their vocational goals or aca-
demic aspirations.
Many CAS students come to AU to take
advantage of the Washington environment
and its resources. Opportunities for co-
ops, internships and research projects are
abundant in the D.C. metropolitan area.
Performing Arts students may work with
the Kennedy Center or any of the smaller
theatrical organizations; history buffs can
spend time at the Smithsonian Institu-
tion's Museum of History, and CAS stu-
dents generally benefit from the Library of
Congress and the many foreign embassies
located in northwest.
CAS also encourages students from
other institutions to participate in one of
its Washington Semester programs (also
offered through other AU colleges and
schools) to observe the cultural offerings
and the governing bodies within the na-
tion's capital.
All articles describing university col-
leges, schools and departments writ-
ten by Ashley Pound, 1985 Talon se-
nior contributing editor.
243
Sister Lucy Lausier
Language and Foreign
Studies
faculty
Sister Lucy Lausier, teaching specialist
in the Department of Language and Foreign
Studies, has a wealth of practical experi-
ence backing a deeply-ingrained sense of
what she does best: teaching. Very few in-
structors are so articulate in regard to their
roles.
Sr. Lausier's teaching history stretches
back to long before she completed even her
undergraduate degree in French. She was
sent to mid-western France during her se-
nior year of college to instruct secondary
school students in English as they pre-
pared to take the baccalaureate exam. Al-
though many of her impressions were in-
fluenced by the fact that she lived within a
convent, she nevertheless enjoyed a "total
immersion" in the culture.
It was after seven years of teaching that
she returned to Springfield, VA. and
finished work on her bachelor degree at
AU. Being based in the Washington area,
AU seemed a likely candidate for school-
ing, but it was an outgoing admissions
officer who "made all the difference in the
world," according to Sr. Lausier. She
rapidly attained a teaching fellowship as
well, and continued here up through earn-
ing her master's degree.
She has been a full-time faculty member
ever since 1979; during the time spanning
the completion of her masters and 1979,
she also taught in area schools.
AU, therefore, has been the beneficiary of
a good part of Sr. Lausier's teaching. Clear-
ly, it is not a casual occupation to her, in
that she looks upon it as a "craft." It is not
as important to her to consider the external
differences among her students as it is to
respond to their varying perceptions.
Teaching, to Sr. Lausier, means successful-
ly presenting material so that the conflict-
ing "angles" of approach from her students
allow them to internalize the information.
Generally speaking, Sr. Lausier makes
few distinctions among her students —
that is, except for two groups: freshman
and non-freshman. She says emphatically
that the process of being transferred from
"top to bottom" adds to the difficulty of the
new study; in this regard, she makes a fun-
damental effort to ease the transition.
Sr. Lausier carries the la,bel of instructor,
but if her viewpoints and philosophy are
taken into consideration, she clearly
moves up from teacher to craftsman of her
trade.
Ingrid Tischer
1985 Talon academic editor
Karen Petersen
Sociology
Academic enthusiasm is a quality that
can rightly said to belong to Dr. Karen
Petersen of the Department of Sociology.
An energetic woman, she exudes interest
in her students, feminism and the field of
sociology.
Dr. Petersen has been a member of the
AU faculty since 1970, but she has addi-
tional experience outside the classroom.
As a member of the Association of Commu-
nity Organizations for Reform Now
(ACORN), Petersen entered Anacostia dur-
ing her sabbatical. ACORN, a "grass-roots
organization," is dedicated to solving or
treating community problems ranging
from garbage collection and replacement
of signs to instituting types of "neighbor-
hood-watch" programs. The overall aim is
to build community unity and activism.
Why step out of the campus environment
into the reality of the city? She says, "I felt I
needed more experience."
Petersen was an international relations
student through her time spent first at
Berkeley, and then at the School of Ad-
vanced International Studies at Johns
Hopkins. But she felt an interest in sociolo-
gy as well, and it was in this field she took
her Ph.D. degree at Columbia University.
Petersen's experience in sociology stems
from both her education and her perspec-
tive of what she considers the function of
the discipline to be. To her, sociology is
worthy of study by nearly everyone be-
cause the sociologist has a "different way
of looking. " The area leads to "social prob-
lem orientation and community action." Is
sociology capable of producing lasting
change? Petersen believes it is; for exam-
ple, the sociological field was, and still is,
instrumental in opening up the more tradi-
tional views towards women. As a "liber-
al" feminist, she sees nothing negative in
any woman electing to remain in the home;
what is important to her is that women are
no longer so "constrained."
The Department of Sociology requires its
faculty to retain an interest in the con-
tinuing action of its field, and in this
capacity, Dr. Petersen is more than able of
meeting its demands.
Ingrid Tischer
1985 Talon academia editor
profile
245
American
Studies
Program
Q. In which department can a student
whose program concentrates on history
and communication earn the same degree
as a major with concentrations in philoso-
phy and religion? A. The American Stu-
dies program.
The American Studies program pro-
vides a structure in which students can
combine any of a wide variety of academic
concentrations. Among these are such di-
verse areas as art, literature, anthropology,
sociology, women's studies, government,
education, economics, music, performing
arts, public administration and urban
affairs. Students and advisors plan indi-
vidualized, interdisciplinary programs,
including compatible areas of study which
could lead to graduate-level work or later
employment. The program offers the op-
portunity for juniors and seniors to work as
interns in Washington organizations.
Henry Taylor, director, American studies program
Department
of
Anthropology
Anthropology students are given several
opportunities to do work related to their
academic major. In October, 1984, Charles
McNett, department chair, announced that
the Department of Anthropology has
signed a five-year cooperative agreement
with the National Park Service to conduct
field research. The project cost an esti-
mated $2.5 million, providing employ-
ment for many dedicated AU students.
The department offers courses in geo-
graphical area studies, anthropological
methods and techniques, and topical stud-
ies, encouraging students to gain practi-
cal experience. Students explore world
cultures, archaeology, art, religion and
linguistics as part of the anthropology
major.
Katherine L. Childs
BA Anthropology
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f
Charles McNett, chair, anthropology
Maria Lourdes Garcia
BA Anthropology
Felisa Clark Iribarren
MA Applied
Anthropology
247
Department
of
Art
Ben Summerford, chair, art
The art department's design, studio art,
fine arts and art education majors produce
impressive portfolios of original work dur-
ing their time spent at the university. Un-
dergraduate art history majors study topics
within each of the four chronological
periods of art, choosing one of five related
fields, including American studies,
anthropology, history, literature, music
and philosophy in which to specialize.
Majors in the graduate art history program
are required to learn at least one foreign
language beyond the intermediate level, in
addition to their department require-
ments.
The department exhibits the work of
several students and guest artists in a gal-
lery in the Watkins Building.
Gloria M. Ayalda
BA Design
Carolyn Nancy
Cavallo
BA Art History
Karen Robin Fast Hillary Ann Hackett
BA Design BA Design
E. Amie Litvin
Christine Lynn
Joanne Ochs
Carla Sandra
BA Studio Art
BA Studio'Art
BA Art History
Pappalardo
BA Design
Niloofar
JoEllen Walker
Cassia Elyse Weiner
Rokju Yi
Razavi-Farahmand
BA Fine Arts
BA Design
BA Design
BA Design
249
Department
of
Biology
Rosita Cary Maroudia F. Courpas
BS Biology BA Environmental
Politics and Policy
Martha Sager, chair, biology
On the cover of the biology department's
recruitment flyer are the key words: "A
humanistic attitude is essential. " With this
in mind, students fulfill difficult require-
ments in molecular/cellular, organismal,
and population/ecological courses, com-
pleting related work in general and organic
chemistry and other individually chosen
topics. The Department of Biology encour-
ages students to participate in field work
off-campus in programs such as the Sea
Semester, in Massachusetts, or the summer
scientific cruises through which majors
travel abroad to study under working
marine scientists.
Biology students in preprofessional
medical programs visit area hospitals to
supplement their on-campus study. In
addition to the program in preprofessional
health, undergraduate students major in
microbiology and distributed science.
Val Joseph Fiorazo
BS Biology
Diala A. Jaber
BS Biology
AifciM*
(ames D. Springer Sunita A. Verghese
BS Biology BS Biology
Christopher Damian
Breder
BS Chemistry
James Girard, chair, chemistry
Chemistry majors, studying at the gradu-
ate level, conduct laboratory experiments
in order to defend their individual scientif-
ic theses. As part of their academic require-
ments, students are expected to support
the thesis with documented research
worthy of publication. Undergraduate
chemistry majors work in the scientific
areas of general, physical, analytical and
organic chemistry, supplementing their
acquired skills and techniques with
courses in calculus and physics.
Students participating in cooperative
education programs are given the opportu-
nity to work for such prestigious organiza-
tions as the Food and Drug Administra-
tion, the Environmental Protection Agen-
cy and the National Institutes of Health.
Chemistry majors are required to have not
only proficiency in their areas of spe-
cialization, but also a command of the
French, German, or Russian language, for
use in the course Chemical Literature.
In September, the university announced
a new $1 million chair in chemistry named
after Dr. Horace Isbell. Isbell, who has been
with AU for fifteen years, provided the
money for the university's first fully en-
dowed chair (later in the academic year a
chair in Islamic Studies was announced).
Dr. Hassan El Khadem has been named to
fill the chair.
251
School
of
Communication
Glenn Harnden, acting dean, SOC
Majors studying public communication,
print journalism, visual media and broad-
cast journalism gain hands-on experience
in a stimulating and creative atmosphere.
In the School of Communication, visual
media majors produce original work in
film and video, including portfolios of
photographic work which are displayed
occasionally in the school's showroom/
lobby. The annual Best-of-the-Fest show
every spring gives visual media students
the chance to have their work judged by
current experts in the field.
Public Communication majors conduct
survey research for local organizations, co-
ordinate publicity campaigns, and attend
weekly lectures by business people in the
public relations field. Students in the print
journalism track work on improving their
writing and editing skills, enjoying critical
advice from the school's professors and
professional journalists. Broadcast jour-
nalism majors improve their performance
and writing abilities, acquiring the skills
required to work both before and behind
the television camera.
Steven Mark Annis David Wayne Arnold Susan K. Avelli David Barnes Charles J. Benson II
BA Communication BA Communication BA Communication BA Communication BA Communication
(Public (Visual (Visual Media) (Print Journalism] (Visual Media)
Communication) MediaJ/Psychology
Lori Melissa Berlin
BA Communication
(Broadcast Journalism)
Lisa Jane Bornstein
BA Communication
(Visual Media)
June Evett Brown
BA Communication
(Broadcast Journalism)
Veronica P. Caballero
BA Communication
(Visual Media)
Adelaide B. Chang
BA Communication
(Public
Communication)
Cammy A. Clark
BA Communication
(Print Journalism)
Richard Scott Cohen
BA Communication
(Public
Communication)
Ellen Faith Cometz
BA Communication
(Public
Communication)
Kimberley Ann
Concors
BA Communication
(Public
Communication)
Pamela Karen Cothran
BA Communication
(Print )ournalism)
Laura Jane Cruger
BA Foreign Language
and Communication
Media
Thomas B. Cury
Lisa Ann Dabney
Melissa Dailey
Susan P. Denny
Gina Elizabeth
Thomas B. Fanning
Communication
BA Communication
BA Communication
BA Communication
Deutsch
BA Communication
(Visual Media)
(Public
Communication)
(Broadcast Journalism)
(Broadcast Journalism)
BA Communication
(Public
Communication)
(Broadcast Journalism)
Donna M. Fasolo
BA Communication
(Public
Communication)
Betty Friedman
BA Communication
(Broadcast Journalism)
Susan Leslie
Futterman
BA Communication
(Public
Communication)
Felicia J. Garber
BA Communication
(Broadcast Journalism)
Laura Elizabeth
Glover
BA Communication
(Visual Media)
Susan A. Grossberg
BA Communication
(Broadcast Journalism)
Thomas Mason Hale
BA Communication
(Visual Media)
Claus L. Harding
BA Communication
(Visual Media)
Mary Jane Hickey
BA Communication
(Public
Communication)
Gregg Stewart
Hoffman
BA Communication
(Visual Media)
Sherry Ann Jarrett
BA Communication
(Public
Communication)
Dana Lynn Johnson
BA Communication
(Print Journalism)
253
Ilene Kadish
Kathryn Lee Katchen
Pamela Owyn
Sherri D. Kaufman
Communication
BA Communication
Kaufman
BA Communication
(Public
(Public
BA Communication
(Public
Communication)
Communication)
(Public
Communication)
Communication)
Anita M. Kelly
BA Communication
(Print Journalism)
Thierry Dirk Kingsley
BA Communication
(Public
Communication)
Jodie L. Klein
BA Communication
(Broadcast Journalism)
Jill Meredith Lambert
BA Communication
(Public
Communication)
Sandra Dominique
LeMaire
BA Foreign Language
and Communication
Media
Ross B. Levinsohn Theresa Marie Lowery Patricia D. Ludwig
BA Communication BA Communication BA Communication
(Broadcast Journalism) (Public (Public
Communication) Communication)
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James Gerard Lutz
Karyn A. Lyons
Susan Patrice Merkel
Julee Lynn Moser
Sue F. Moy
Steven John Murray
A Communication
BA Communication
BA Communication
BA Communication
BA Communication
BA Communication
(Visual Media)
(Public
Communication)
(Public
Communication)
(Visual Media)
(Print Journalism)
(Broadcast Journalism)
Laurie D. Neschis
BA Communication
(Public
Communication)
Paul B. Papier
BA Communication
(Visual Media)
JoAnn Nicole Pileggi
BA Foreign Language
and Communication
Media
Sheryl Lynn Pinsky
BA Communication
(Public
Communication)
Lisa B. Piatt
BA Communication
(Public
Communication)
Angela Ashley Pound
BA Foreign Language
and Communication
Media
Bonnie S. Reeder
BA Communication
(Public
Communication)
Leslie R. Relkin
BA Communication
(Public
Communication)
Adam Christopher
Ricardel
BA Communication
(Public
Communication)
Sarah Lou Richards
BA Communication
(Visual Media)
Alicia H. Rosenfeld
BA Communication
(Public
Communication)/
Marketing
Mark W. Rowe
BA Communication
(Print
Journalism (/Political
Science
Yasmine Anne
Samimy
BA Communication
(Public
Communication)
Maria Luz Schulz
BA Communication
(Public
Communication)
Stacey Joy Schwartz
BA Communication
(Public
Communication)
Douglas David Seifert
BA Communication
(Visual Media)
Joy M. Serata Fredrick W. Stokeld
BA Communication BA Communication
(Public (Broadcast Journalism)
Communication)
Deborah T. Stoloff
BA Foreign Language
and Communication
Media
Cindy L. Sucher
BA Communication
(Public
Communication)
Anita R. Talamas
BA Communication
(Visual Media)
Darlene Rochelle
Taylor
BA Communication
(Broadcast Journalism)
Robin Nynne Tillman
BA Communication
(Public
Communication)
Pamela S. Toole
BA Communication
(Visual Media)
Michael David Weiner Stacey Debra Weiss
BA Communication BA Communication
(Public (Public Communication)
Communication)
Mark Alan Williams
BA Communication
(Broadcast Journalism)
Benet Jene Wilson
BA Communication
(Broadcast Journalism)
Rhonda Frances
Zgorski
BA Communication
(Broadcast Journalism)
Scott Paul Zucker
BA Communication
(Public
Communication)
255
Department
of
Economics
Nancy Barrett, chair, economics
Students in the economics department
design their programs of study with em-
phasis on one of three major areas: Neo-
classical and Keynesian economics, histor-
ical and institutionalist economics, and
political economy. From among fourteen
areas of specialization, economics, mathe-
matical economics, econometrics, or in-
dustrial organizations, to name a few. Hon-
ors students are given the opportunity to
spend a year at the London School of Eco-
nomics, and all economics majors are eligi-
ble for programs in Rome and Copenhagen,
as well as in London.
Many students hold double majors in
economics and one of several fields taught
by the faculty in CAS, SIS, SGPA, or KCBA.
*Mm
Saverius Phenduka
Bhembe
BA Economics
Thomas Maguire
Dailey
BA Economics
Michael J. Flynn
BA Economics
Paul G. Garjian
BA Economics
Gary R. Gerhart
BA Economics
Annemarie Pfeifer
BA Economics
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Amy F. Simms
BA Economics
Richard Scott Timone
BA Economics
Aseem Tiwari Soo Hyun Whang Paul Eugene Yeomans
BA Economics BA BA Economics
Economics/Computer
Science
School
of
Education
David Sansburv, dean, SOE
Undergraduate and graduate students in
the School of Education gain theoretical
knowledge and practical experience in
specialized areas of education, including
elementary and secondary education, spe-
cial education for children with emotional
disturbances and learning disabilities, and
educational administration. The school
also jointly offers graduate programs with
the Department of Mathematics, Statistics
and Computer Science and with the differ-
ent science departments on campus.
As part of their curriculum, education
majors work on campus with the universi-
ty's day care center and as student teachers
in area elementary and secondary schools.
A relatively small group, in comparison
with other education schools, SOE stu-
dents receive personal attention from a
staff of highly respected professors, in-
cluding a former Washingtonian of the
Year, faculty members who have their own
private schools, national award winners
for education research, and authors of text-
books covering the education field.
Gail Abramson
BA Early Childhood
ana Elementary
Education
Barbara J. Anelle
BA Early Childhood
and Elementary
Education
Lori R. Drezner
BA Early Childhood
ancl Elementary
Education
Kathryn Ann Hoy
BA Early Childhood
and Elementary
Education
Farzaneh
Khayat-Mofid
PhD Counseling and
Student Development
Karen E. Levy
BA Early Childhood
and Elementary
Education
Lisa Ann Lyon
BA Elementary
Education and Special
Education
Mary Miller Meares
BA Early Childhood
and Elementary
Education
Leslie Ilene Rabbino
BA Elementary
Education and Special
Education
Sharon E. Scholem
BA Elementary
Education and Special
Education
Debra Beth Stern
BA Elementary
Education and Special
Education
Janet Raina Wolk
BA Earlv Childhood
and Elementary
Education
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General
Studies
Program
The bachelor and associate degrees in
general studies are special degrees that en-
able students to meet their educational
goals without being admitted to any one of
the university's colleges or schools. These
very flexible programs are administered by
the Office of Continuing Education and
Conferences and require all the general
university distributive credits to graduate.
An academic advisor helps general stu-
dies majors choose two areas of concentra-
tion in which to study. According to the
university catalog, the general studies pro-
gram is an appropriate vehicle for the "pro-
fessional and personal advancement" of
these students.
\HA
Anthony Marvin Clark
BA General Studies
H. Perry Fillingane Adriana Callejas Hisham S.D. Kardasi Leslie B. Sherman
BA General Studies Flores BA General Studies BA General Studies
BA General Studies
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Department
of
History
Robert Beisner. chair, history
History majors have a variety of career
interests. Seeking to help prepare students
for careers in such related fields as
teaching, editing, film work and journal-
ism, and study in business and law, the
department's instructors encourage the
strengthening of writing skills, analytical
ability and the determination to meet aca-
demic challenges. According to Robert
Beisner, department chair, a strong knowl-
edge of history enables the student to
"cope with social change and competing
political appeals and demands."
History books, including a Pulitzer Prize
nominee, and articles covering such di-
verse topics as immigration, German
socialism and the U.S. presidential elec-
tion, have been authored by professors in
the history department. Instructors pro-
vide surveys of different historical periods,
in-depth analyses of specific historical
events and the intensive study of particu-
lar geographic regions.
Jonathan D. Forstot
BA History
Suzanne Brette
Greene
BA History
John Wendell Hartel
BA History
John A. Keenan
BA History
Dan Lee Mathews
BA History
Llovd L. Williams
BA History
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Jewish
Studies
Program
Jo Ann Brady
BA Jewish Studies
Benjamin Kahn, director. Jewish studies program
Students participating in the Jewish Stu-
dies program spend their time delving into
Jewish culture, history and civilization. In
order to better understand the relationship
of Judaism to Western civilization, stu-
dents take courses tracing the Jewish expe-
rience from the patriarchal period to the
present. Rounding out the program are
courses in Jewish life, thought, literature
and art. Majors are expected to fulfill a
language requirement in Hebrew, reaching
proficiency at the intermediate level by
graduation.
Options enjoyed by AU students in the
program include internships with Jewish
organizations, guest lectures, and the Mor-
ris Gewirz Series in Jewish Thought,
which makes available a two-semester sur-
vey of Jewish philosophy.
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Department
of
Language
and
Foreign
Studies
Melissa Jane Balder
BA Language and
Foreign Studies
Leslie Ann Harlin
BA Language and
Foreign Studies
r
Oliver H.P. Robinson Barbara H. Scherer
BA Language and BA Language and
Foreign Studies Foreign Studies
Anthony Caprio, chair, language and foreign studies
The Department of Language and For-
eign Studies offers a variety of areas of
study, including French Studies, German
Studies, Russian Studies and Spanish
Studies.
Most students in the department major
in two academic fields or in joint programs
developed by the language department and
other departments on campus. For exam-
ple, Language and Communication Media,
a popular joint major, prepares students for
future work in their chosen communica-
tion fields.
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Department
of
Literature
Mary Aileen Buss
BA Literature
Justine Moore Hall
BA Literature
M ii in
Joan Radner, chair, literature
The Department of Literature encour-
ages majors and non-majors alike to be-
come interested in some aspect of litera-
ture or the creative process. Recognizing
the value of literature in education, profes-
sors lecture about comprehension, cre-
ative expression, criticism and the history
of literature. Students participate in the
department's writing workshops, includ-
ing college writing, creative writing, writ-
ing for prospective lawyers and business
writing. Frequent classroom discussion
enhances broad course topics such as
Black American literature, Women and
literature, and specific subjects such as
Chaucer, D.H. Lawrence, George Bernard
Shaw and Dosteovsky.
Film and literature are linked in the
Cinema Studies and Film and Video pro-
grams. Students deal with the study of
film-makers, the film script, production
and history. Practical courses through the
School of Communication round out these
joint programs.
Barbara Lorraine Ross
BA Literature
Gina Alyse Schaefer
BA Literature
26.
Department
of
Mathematics,
Statistics
and
Computer
Science
Hana M. Al-Harthi
BS Computer Science
Nahed A. Alomari
BS Computer Science
Mary Gray, chair, mathematics, statistics and computer science
AU is unique among many institutions
of higher education for combining mathe-
matics, statistics and computer science in
one department. Incorporating these de-
gree programs in a single department
allows students to change their courses of
study from one teaching unit to another
without losing time.
Although students gain practical skills
in their chosen fields, majors also study the
mathematical sciences for their theoretical
content. The combination of theory and
application creates a strong background for
advanced study.
While many mathematics and statistics
majors will go on to graduate school, com-
puter science graduates will either do the
same or pursue such professional posi-
tions as systems analysts or applications
programmers.
udith Marina
Blaylock
BS Computer Science
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Department of Mathemics, Statistics and Computer Science continued
Manfred F. Caparas Brian G. Demarest Debra Kay Foer Gazi Gazioglu Shahin Kamran
BS Computer Science BS Computer Science BS Computer BS Computer Science BS Computer Science
Science/Psychology
Jane Rache
BS Computer
I Levine Ligia Gioconda Lopez WoYou Mun Lamia Saleh
Science BS Computer Science BS Computer Science BS Computer Science
Bertina Louise
Thompson
■ Computer Science
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Department
of
Performing
Arts
Programs in the Department of Perform-
ing Arts are designed to develop well-
rounded artists who are expected to give
professional treatment to their project
work. Bachelor's and master's degrees are
offered in dance, music and theatre. There
is an M.A. in performing arts: Arts Manage-
ment, an interdisciplinary program, which
combines study in the performing arts,
business and public relations. This major
provides the proper background for any-
one interested in managing in a theatre or
performance company or in the business
and promotion of an arts organization.
Music students can concentrate on com-
position, history, performance, theory or
education. Kreeger Music Building is filled
each year with the sounds of pianos,
strings, woodwinds and brass, as students
prepare for recitals. Many of these students
take private vocal and instrumental
training.
Dance majors are similarly engaged in
choreographing and rehearsing pieces for
the fall and spring dance concerts. These
well-attended concerts usually cover the
scope of dance: modern, jazz and ballet.
Aspiring actors and directors have the
opportunity to put their skills to the test in
the department's dramatic and musical
productions. This year, DPA produced
"Antigone," "The Roar of the Greasepaint,
the Smell of the Crowd," "The Children's
Hour" and "The Taming of the Shrew."
Kathryn M. Fritz
BA Performing Arts:
Theatre
Lisa Phillips
BA Performing Arts:
Theatre
Charles Crowder, chair, performing arts
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Department
of
Philosophy
and
Religion
Darryl C. Jones
BA Philosophy
Charles White, chair, philosophy and religion
Two intellectual realms in one depart-
ment provide a diversity of thought for
both the philosophy and religion majors.
Religion students examine the history,
literature, theory and practices of various
religions to further their individual goals.
These majors have the required option of
learning French, German, Latin, Spanish,
Greek, Hebrew or Sanskrit to aid them in
their studies. Philosophy majors, too, are
required to fulfill a similar language re-
quirement.
Students of philosophy learn about the
great philosophers in history, the science
of logic, the philosophy of religion and
more. The department offers programs
through the doctoral level. Religion majors
discuss and compare different religions,
including Judaism, Christianity. Islam,
Buddhism and Hinduism. For students
with an undergraduate background in reli-
gions or South Asian studies, the M.A. pro-
gram in the History of Religions offers a
single concentration in the Hindu tradi-
tion.
Department
of
Physical
Education
Robert Frailey, chair, physical education
The Department of Physical Education
accepted its last freshman class in 1983-
1984. Students finishing the B.A. in physi-
cal education are expected to leave the uni-
versity with a sense of physical and emo-
tional well-being through an education in
kinesiology, the history of physical educa-
tion, physiology of exercise, health evalua-
tion and human structure and function. In
addition, physical education majors draw
from the university's other schools and de-
partments to enhance their basic educa-
tion.
The department also offers an M.S. pro-
gram in Health/Fitness Management that
combines a business curriculum of man-
agement, accounting and marketing
courses with a science curriculum stres-
sing biochemistry, behavioral medicine,
nutrition and exercise physiology. Many
Washington organizations offer jobs with
one or more of these educational elements.
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Department
of
Physics
Physics majors, earning the bachelor of
arts degree, study a broad range of topics as
a result of the program's multidisciplinary
approach, with the opportunity to take
courses in one of four related fields: biolo-
gy, chemistry, computer science and en-
vironmental studies. Students planning to
earn the bachelor of science degree prepare
for a more practical application of their
acquired knowledge, whether they plan to
work toward a graduate degree in physics
or to enter a professional field.
The bachelor of science degree in audio
technology, one of the university's more
unique academic offerings, enables majors
to study music, the performing arts, phys-
ics and mathematics. Audio technology
students graduating from the university
will be able to seek jobs as audio engineers,
working with the electronic media as
sound specialists, noise control engineers,
recording directors and many other related
professions.
Romeo Segnan, chair, physics
David Keith Bialik
BS Audio Technology
John Cushing Cramer
BA Physics
Thomas P. Curran
BS Audio Technology
Peter Vivian Daniel
BS Audio Technology
Evan Pollack
BS Audio Technology
Department
of
Psychology
Psychology may be studies as a natural
or social science in the Department of Psy-
chology. Majors can take courses in clini-
cal, social, personality, developmental and
experimental depending upon their in-
terests.
Students in the B.A. program, who are
pursuing graduate work, are encouraged to
participate in the career track. This pro-
gram provides the proper background for
students interested in entering a profes-
sional psychology position.
The B.S. offers a solid psychology base to
be applied to programs with concentra-
tions in anthropology, biology, chemistry,
economics, linguistics, mathematics, phi-
losophy, physics or sociology.
The masters program is open to students
planning to continue to the Ph.D. level.
Three tracks: experimental, clinical and
social psychology each require a thesis
project based upon research done by the
graduate student. The department also
offers a five year B.A. /M. A. degree in gener-
al psychology for undergraduates who
plan to earn a masters degree later in their
college careers.
i\
m - '— jii
Elliott McGinnies, chair, psychology
Julie Ellen Broida
BA Psychology
Sonia Berrios Carroll
BA Psychology
John Douglas Edgar
BS
Psychology /Pre-
Medicine
Gina Beth Goldenberg
BA Psychology
David Youmans
Grabav
BA Psychology
269
Department of Psychology continued
Michele Susan Ivey Wendy Koonnan
Klapper BA Psychology
BA Psychology
Helene J. Marcus
BA Psychology
Leighton P.
McParland
BA Psychology
Anne-Marie Lisa Yvonne Moxley
McPhillips BA Psychology
BA Psychology
iiii-j
Ilene Ann Robbins
Laura S. Saltzman
Matthew J.
Gerald R. Talandis
Susan C. Thompson
Bonnie Kristine
BA Psychology
BA Psychology
Schlesinger
BA Psychology
BA Psychology
BA Psychology
Woolley
BA Psychology
Department
of
Sociology
Kenneth Kusterer, chair, sociology
Enrollment in the Department of Sociol-
ogy has increased by more than 20% this
year according to the department's most
recent annual report. Also discussed in the
report are numerous activities and accom-
plishments of both students and profes-
sors. Among these achievements are two
books and more than sixteen articles of
varying sorts by the eleven members of the
department's tenured faculty. All of the
professors have appeared throughout the
year on major television and radio net-
works as field experts.
Students complete coursework in both
social theory and practical research, con-
| centrating on sub-fields such as social psy-
| chology, social inequity and political soci-
a ology. The program prepares students for
graduate work and employment in a vari-
ety of professional areas.
Ellen Asher
Violeta Estrada Del
Elizabeth Hope
Roslyn Fav Ingall
Valorie Maria White
Peter Winicov
A Sociology
Castillo
BA Sociology/History
Gronfein
BA Sociology
BA Sociology
BA Sociology
BA Sociology
272
College
of
Public
and
International
Affairs
Robert Cleary. Dean of CPIA
m i
he College of Public and
International Affairs
calls Washington D.C.,
a "laboratory for public
affairs education," be-
cause CPIA students spend so much of
their study time tapping the city's rich re-
sources. Here, classroom theory is
observed in practice every day by students
interested in politics, public affairs, justice
and international studies.
The college is comprised of three
schools and one center: the Schools of Gov-
ernment and Public Administration, Inter-
national Service and Justice, and the Cen-
ter for Technology and Administration. A
full-time faculty of more than 80 members
teaches a combination of practical and
theoretical courses, stressing a liberal arts
background and a multidisciplinary
approach to the study of public and inter-
national affairs. CPIA students may par-
ticipate in a variety of special activities and
programs including co-ops and in-
ternships with government agencies, polit-
ical organizations, or area businesses, in-
dependents study in the city, and student
government.
As recognition for accomplishment in
certain areas of concentration, a select
group of seniors and graduate students
may be accepted into one of two national
honor societies: Pi Sigma Alpha, the Na-
tional Political Honor Society, or Pi Alpha
Alpha, the National Honor Society for Pub-
lic Affairs and Administration.
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James Fyfe
Justice
From patrol officer to police sergeant,
from the Police Academy to the John Jay
School of Criminal Justice, and finally to
the State University of New York, Dr.
James J. Fyfe has worked his way up
through the criminal justice system to
where he is today: assistant professor of
justice at AU. Dr. Fyfe has been at AU since
1979, and is a man who has reached his
position through practical experience and
hard work.
Courses Dr. Fyfe particularly enjoys
teaching include Introduction to Systems
faculty
of Justice, and Contemporary Issues in Law
Enforcement, a course which varies each
semester and covers the latest "hot" topics
in justice. His specialty, however, is in the
area of deadly force used by police. He has
written approximately 25 articles and is
now working on a book focusing on the
problem.
Dr. Fyfe is also presently involved in a
case which he is considering one of the
highlights of his career. This case, Tennes-
see v. Garner, will be coming in front of the
Supreme Court within the next few
months, with Dr. Fyfe as the expert wit-
ness. The case, involving the shooting of a
fifteen-year-old boy by a police officer,
gives Dr. Fyfe the opportunity to use his
knowledge of deadly force and the police.
He hopes the outcome of the case will put
further limits on the police's discretion
concerning gun use.
Dr. Fyfe also has strong feelings on the
exclusionary rule, which has recently sur-
faced as a popular political issue, a rule
disallowing evidence in court that has
been illegally obtained by the police. He
says, "If you modify the exclusionary rule,
you're weakening the real protection of
Fourth Amendment rights." And because
the exclusionary rule affects so few cases
— approximately one percent — the Unit-
ed States would be "swapping a Bill of
Rights guarantee for something that will
have only a marginal effect."
Dr. Fyfe is a senior fellow of the Police
Research Organization, and has had the
chance to lecture to thousands of police
officers on violence reduction in their
training programs.
Dr. Fyfe is a knowledgeable man, and as
some of his students says, a "great profes-
sor." It is not surprising with professors
such as James Fyfe, who continue spe-
cializing in their respective fields, that the
School of Justice is ranked in the top ten in
the nation.
Lisa Johnston
1985 Talon contributing writer
274
At 26 years of age, Tari Renner is an
exceptionally brilliant individual who
vigorously enjoys the teaching and learn-
ing process.
Though he is a full-time professor at
Washington College in Maryland, he also
teaches part-time at AU. Renner is widely
known for his enthusiastic and non-
condescending teaching methods. He viv-
idly conveys what he discerns to be the
necessary material in his Presidential poli-
ticians class.
Renner is an academic prodigy who
attended only his freshman year of high
school and then went to college. He com-
pleted his undergraduate studies at the
University of South Florida with a major in
political science.
He has worked for the Environmental
Protection Agency but says emphatically.
"I could never become a government
bureaucrat."
Although he enjoys studying the differ-
ent aspects of the United States govern-
ment and their respective functions, he fo-
cuses his attention on the electorial pro-
cess. After working for Gary Hart in the
1984 Democratic primaries, Renner chose
to help local politicians get elected.
His forte is conducting a well-organized
poll and interpreting it. "I'd like to co-
author a book on the 1984 Presidential
elections and the possibilities of realign-
ment."
Peter Gasparini
1985 Talon contributing writer
Tari Renner
Government and Public
Administration
profile
275
School
of
Government
and
Public
Administration
Dorothy James, dean, SGPA
In 1984 surveys SGPA ranked tenth,
seventh, and most recently, fourth in the
nation, according to the Public Administra-
tion Review. The National Association of
Schools of Public Affairs and Administra-
tion has acknowledged SGPA's master of
public administration program to be one of
"the first in the nation ... to be in substan-
tial conformity with NASPAA standards
for professional master's programs."
SGPA students study under the school's
highly respected faculty and draw on the
convenient resources of the nation's capi-
tal. Majors offered through SGPA include
political science, urban affairs and a spe-
cial interdisciplinary program called com-
munication, legal institutions, economics
and government.
Susan Bettencourt
BA Political Science
Christopher-Lee
Shawn Bloodworth
BA CLEG/Public
Systems Management
Glen D. Bolger
BA Political Science
John R. Brecker
BA Political Science
Steven R. Calcagno
BA Political
Science/Finance
Carla Sarah Caliendo
Christine Maria
James Matthew
Brent Lawrence
BA Political Science
Cavalier
Chalker
Cohen
BA Political Science
BA Political Science
BA Political
Science/International
Studies
Magaji Ibrahim
Carlos Manuel Diaz
David Andrew
Dawn Maylene
Dantiye
BA Urban Affairs
Domanskv
DuVerney
MPA Public
BA Political
BA CLEG
Administration
Science/Economics
277
lames R. Dyer
BA Political Science
Adam Paul Ebbin Howard Scott Jonathan Richard Debora C. Freel Alexander Jock
BA Political Feintuch Flower BA Political Science Goodman Gilchrist
Science/ BA Political Science BA Political Science BA Political Science
Communication
' "1 M'
tUnkSM
David Edgar Gochman John George Margo Elizabeth Mary Edel Hofmann Winfield Scott Jenkins David Scott Johnson
BA Political Science Heidenrich Herron BA Political BA Political Science BA Political Science
BA Political Science BA Political Science Science/Economics
Jeffrey Todd Kampf Larry R. Karr Henry F. Kreinces Maria Levenstein Ross A. Love Hugh P. Lutz
BA Political Science BA Political Science BA Political Science BA Political Science BA Political Science BA Political Science
re\
*Mi
JiMA.M
Charles Harvey Maria MacDonald Pamela Sue Malkin Peter B. Martin Edward McGinness Elizabeth Marie
Lydecker BA Political Science BA Political Science BA Political Science BA Political Science Mitchell
BA Political BA CLEG
Science/Business
Administration
278
Maria Carmen Moreno
BA Political Science
Christopher P.
Nicholas
BA Political Science
Chris A. Nicolino
BA Political Science
Susan Rebecca Perry
BA Political Science
Anna Victoria
Peterson
BA Political Science
Rochelle Lynn
Pickard
BA CLEG/Economics
AbiM
Christopher Procopis
BA Political Science
Michael Chris Pyrros
BA Political Science
Mario Ehrique Rivera
BA Political
Science/Economics
Jane E. Singleton
BA Political Science
Becky L. Snedeker
BA Political Science
Robert M. Snyder
BA CLEG
' iff ' AT g% ft
* m
Abby Michelle Sonin
BA Political
Science/Performing
Arts
Oscar E. Soto
BA Political
Science/Economics
Rick ). Stanley Ralph Eric Steinbarth
BA Political Science BA CLEG
U.mJtM
Adam Matthew Stoll William Hobson Stone
BA Political Science BA CLEG
Jane Bolles Strong
BA Political Science
Jeffrey Lawrence
Swartz
BA CLEG
Gina Marie Talamona
BA Political Science
Noelle T. Tsevdos
BA Political Science
Richard Mark
Vladimir
BA Political Science
Robert Anthony
Weber
BA Political Science
279
School
of
International
Service
One of every six freshmen attending the
university this year is a student in the
School of International Service. More than
900 undergraduate and graduate students
participate in the school's multi-
disciplinary programs.
In research reported to the International
Studies Association, the school's interna-
tional studies program has been ranked
fourth, fifth and sixth among other pro-
grams of its kind. Each survey was based
upon different criteria.
Undergraduate programs in SIS include
international studies (with several areas of
concentration), language and area studies,
and European integration.
Starting next fall, SIS will be the first
home of the university's second fully en-
dowed chair. The chair, in Islamic Studies,
will rotate to a different area of the univer-
sity every two years. The $1 million to en-
dow the chair was donated by the kingdom
of Saudi Arabia.
Nail A. Al-Jubeir
BA International
Studies/Political
Science
Rossana Luieia
Ameglio
BA International
Studies
William Olson, dean. SIS
William Paul Amt
BA International
Studies
Christine Elaine Bell
BA International
Studies/Economics
John Anderson Berry
IV
BA International
Studies/Language and
Foreign Studies
Robin Lisa Bialy
BA Language and
Area Studies
Laura A. Buckwald
BA International
Studies
John G. Cahill
BA International
Studies/Law and
Society
Thomas J. Carlin
BA International
Studies/Economics
Eileen E. Cassidy
BA International
Studies
Niki Christodoulou
BA International
Studies
William L. Coggin
BA International
Studies
Douglas C. Cole
Kent T. Cusack
Gary Allen DeSimone
Ana C. Dorta-Duque
Louise Michele
BA International
BA International
BA International
BA International
Duhamel
Studies
Studies
Studies
Studies
BA International
Studies
281
Daniel Mark Ewert
BA International
Studies
Lisanne G. Finston Monica Lee Fridell James Patrick
BA International BA International Gallagher
Studies Studies/Language and BA International
Area Studies Studies
Gary J. Gerbino Kelly Brooke Gilbert
BA International BA International
Studies/ Studies
Communication
Anthony J. izzo
BA International
Studies
Joseph Francis Jarub
III
BA International
Studies/Political
Science
Mark C. Jones Kathleen Marie Joyce Donna Jeanne Kaplan
BA International BA International BA International
Studies Studies Studies
Deborah Ann Kneen
BA International
Studies
Jeffrey Jon Knopping
BA International
Studies
Beth A. Leasure
Jose Blass Lorenzo
Jay Schine Marks
Colleen Marie McBeth
Jocelyn Elizabeth
3A International
BA International
BA International
BA International
Montanaro
Studies
Studies/Economics
Studies/Economics
Studies
BA International
Studies
Etahjayne Morgan
Cynthia L. Muench
Christina S. Murray
Paul Joseph Murray
Kevin Michael
Maria R. Pipolo
MA International
BA International
BA International
BA International
O'Keefe
BA International
Development
Studies
Studies
Studies
BA International
Studies
Studies
2S2
Gregory Elias Polites
BA International
Studies
Sharon Reed
BA International
Studies/Language and
Area Studies
Mary Elisabeth Reid
BA International
Studies
Howard A. Rodda
BA International
Studies
Laurie Lurea Rowley
BA International
Studies
Elizabeth Ruben
BA International
Studies
Beth Ellen Sanner Nabil AH. Shabka Charles Anthony John Dunn Smith )r. Margaret Dee Spina Kelly A. Sterns
BA International BA International Shippam BA Language and BA International BA International
Studies/Economics Studies BA European Area Studies Studies Studies
Integration
Joan M. Stentiford Jacqueline Renee Jay Tcath Lauren Marie Teeling
BA International Sterner BA International BA International
Studies BA International Studies Studies/International
Studies Business
Alyssa Christina Jeffrey Theodore Vail
Tonelli BA International
BA International Studies
Studies
Bruce Robert Vaughn
Theodore Robert
Kathleen M. Weaver
Veronica Alejandra
John L. Williams
Eleni Xanthakos
BA International
Walters
BA International
Weht
BA International
BA International
Studies
BA International
Studies/Economics
Studies
BA International
Studies
Studies
Studies
283
Students in the School of Justice observe
the U.S. justice system in action as part of
their course research. Some students
spend late nights in a patrolling car study-
ing the current practices of the D.C. police
force. Rare opportunities such as this one
were made available to more than 200 SOJ
majors.
SOJ is distinguished among schools of
criminal justice for its faculty and program
reputation, ranking second, ninth, and
s eleventh based on the results of different
a surveys. SOJ programs offer a broad base of
° work in fields related to justice, preparing
students for further study in the more con-
centrated disciplines.
ienne Renee Baron
Stacey Gayle Berkman
Meredith Bernstein
Judv Bloom
Robert Charles
BA Justice
BA Justice
BA Justice
BA Justice/Psychology
Caswell
BA Justice
Mark Alan Chaves Shannon T. Costanzo Lisa Janet D'Alonzo Thomas Owen Davies Fern E. Fleischer
BA Justice BA Justice BA Justice BA Justice BA Law and Society
Jill R. Kasofsky Andria T. Lure
BA Law and Society BA Law and Society
Donna Ellen Miller
BA Justice
Caesar Augustus
Minor
BA Justice
Ken E. Mitzkovitz
BA Justice
Steven B. Nesmith
BA Justice
Mara S. Priest Karen Ann Robinson
BA Justice BA Law and Society
Melissa Lee Rosen
BA Justice
Patricia Z. Saah
BA Justice
Melissa A. Seide Paul Alan Shelowitz
BA Law and BA Justice
Society/Environmental
Science
Catherine McRae Linda Van Den Vera Lynne White
Sinclair Bossche BA Law and
MS Justice BA Law and Society Society/Psychology
285
Center
for
Technology
and
Administration
The Center for Technology and Admin-
istration exists to prepare students for em-
ployment in the growing fields that require
experience in science and technology, as
well as in government and private indus-
try. Undergraduate students study either
computer systems applications or public
systems management, in which they learn
to apply their computer knowledge to an
individually chosen field of interest. Grad-
uates of CTA acquire an unusual combina-
tion of skills in statistics, problem-solving,
and computer programming, specializing
in such diverse areas as environmental sci-
ence, justice studies, international rela-
tions and urban affairs.
Robert Boynton, director. CTA
286
Susan Michele
Altman
BSTM Computer
Systems Applications
Kathleen Elizabeth
Breen
BSTM Computer
Systems Applications
Nicole Lea Claon
BSTM Computer
Systems Applications
Monica R. Emanuel
BSTM/MSTM
Technology of
Management
Nawal A. Hussain
BSTM Technology of
Management
Lorraine Lynn
Knowlton
BSTM Computer
Systems Applications
M. Titi McNeill
BSTM Computer
Systems Applications
Halleh Mehdivoun
BSTM Computer
Systems Applications
Daisy A. Mendizabal
BSTM Computer
Systems Applications
Winnifred Anyona
Mutuli
BSTM Computer
Systems Applications
Thu T. Pham
BSTM Computer
Systems Applications
287
Kogod
College
of
Business
Administration
William Peters. Dean of KCBA
m i
tudents majoring in the
business college's
numerous undergradu-
ate and graduate degree
programs learn from re-
spected Washington business profession-
als, government officials and marketing
experts, some of whom are permanent
university instructors and others of whom
conduct workshops and seminars for a se-
mester or a year.
In addition to its academic courses,
KCBA sponsors the Center for Financial
Management, the Center for Business and
Public Policy, and the Center for Research
and Documentation on the European Com-
munity (CERDEC). Students participating
in programs offered by these centers attend
course lectures and seminars in KCBA and
other university schools. Semesters
abroad, jointly sponsored by KCBA and
universities in other countries, are a spe-
cial feature of CERDEC. On campus, CER-
DEC offers courses in French as well as
English.
289
Kent Baker
KCBA
H. Kent Baker, KCBA, is what some
might call an All-American. He has had
several honors bestowed upon him, in-
cluding AU's 1983 Scholar/Teacher of the
Year Award. He joined the staff of AU in
1975 after traveling the country as a con-
sultant to various companies and corpora-
tions. According to Baker, things were
different then. "The business school was
smaller, spread out over two or three loca-
tions. The faculty had outgrown the facili-
ties — we're about to do the same thing
now." Aside from "business," the personal
side of Professor Baker is equally in-
teresting.
His wife Linda is AU's Assistant Trea-
surer. "No kids, but two gorgeous Hima-
layan cats!"
An accomplished musician of thirty-two
years, Baker unwinds by sitting down
to his grand piano. "Teaching is my voca-
tion. Music is my avocation," he says. He
plays seven different instruments and has
done everything from weddings and coun-
try clubs to being keyboard/vocalist in a
Top 40's band. He taught music for ten
years, had a studio, and still belongs to a
band.
"There came a point in my life when it
was between business school or the con-
servatory." In a sense, he combined the
two: he entered Georgetown University
two: he entered Georgetown University
Business School on a full scholarship in
1963, and played his way through college
in bands and combos.
His other hobbies include jogging and
following the Baltimore Orioles and the
Washington Redskins. "There are actually
two reasons why I'm a 'Skins fan: one is
because my wife is, and the second is be-
cause Mark Murphy was in one of the
classes I taught here at AU. He received an
MBA in Finance here the year the Redskins
won the Super Bowl. It was fun — our class
had a cake for him when they won," he
says.
AU life for Baker is more than just
teaching. During his office hours, he can be
found explaining the complicated but fas-
cinating aspects of finance to his graduate
students. His first-hand experience brings
it all down to an understandable level.
A few years ago, Baker introduced a
course on personal finance to help stu-
dents put financial management into prac-
tice. He feels that most of today's problems
are caused by poor money management.
When asked what he considers the most
important piece of advice for a college stu-
dent, he replies, "Be an educated consum-
er. That may sound corny, but it is essen-
tial. Learn how to get the most for your
money. Shop around for sound invest-
ments."
Professor Baker offers the following for
the realistic planner, "The number one
cause of divorce in this country is differing
views of handling finances. Prepare your-
self for the big decisions in life: job, mar-
riage, "big purchases such as a house or
car, insurance policies, etc."
Carol Long
1985 Talon contributing writer
faculty
290
"People affect you, not things or fields,"
states Dr. Herbert Striner. And Dr. Striner,
professor of economics and management
in KCBA, is definitely one of those people
who affect you. His accomplishments
speak for themselves: he's been Dean of the
College of Business Administration, Dean
of the College of Continuing Education,
President of University Research Corpora-
tion, twice a recipient of the Ford Founda-
tion Scholars Travel Grant, a Productivity
Consultant for IBM, PPG and other major
U.S. companies, and he's written four
books and nearly seventy articles.
While Dr. Striner has an outstanding
record of achievements, it is his love of
teaching that makes him so effective. Dr.
Striner is the kind of man who gets very
involved in his teaching and thoroughly
enjoys it. As a matter of fact, when he first
came to Washington to work full-time for
the Federal government, he took a position
at Georgetown University so he could
teach at night. He also resigned his posi-
tion as Dean of Business Administration
just so he could get back into the class-
room.
Dr. Striner's love of teaching and belief
in the educational system comes across in
his philosophies and, more obviously, in
his daily life. According to Dr. Striner, it's
important to get involved in as many
things as you can: it makes you and your
world more interesting. He says, "You
should try to expose yourself to as many
different people and ideas as possible
while you're at college because it's really
the last time in your life you can open up
your mind, full-time, to new ideas." He
feels it's important to take classes outside
your major, just because you've heard the
class is interesting, or because the profes-
sor is an innovative thinker. Broaden your
horizons!
Dr. Striner believes that a good educa-
tion is worth striving for, and it is not sim-
Herbert Striner
KCBA
Ni.
ply going to class, taking notes, or turning
out term appers. Rather, the "real process
of education is feeling you can see things
differently. Even if you don't change your
mind, the point is you see the difference.
This is the real process of education."
Lisa Johnston
1985 Talon contributing writer
profile
291
Accounting
Department
Gary Bulmash, chair, accounting
Accounting majors at the undergraduate
level graduate with the bachelor of science
in business administration after earning a
total of 120 semester hours in liberal arts,
business and elective courses.
In addition to courses in cost account-
ing, accounting theory, taxation and audit-
ing, students must complete coursework in
marketing, management, business law,
| corporate finance and other business re-
6 lated fields. The accounting major de-
h velops marketable skills at AU, enabling
the student to proceed to professional em-
ployment or further study.
Scott A. Barnard
BSBA Accounting
)oel Edward Baker
Brian Biondi
BSBA
BSBA
BSBA Accounting
Account ing'Fi nance
Accounting/Finance
292
wAAa
Lee Morrell Chevron
BSBA Accounting
Linda Gail Cogan
BSBA Accounting
Cindy Joy Cohen
BSBA Accounting
Glen H. Davids
BSBA Accounting
Gary Winfield Davis
BSBA Accounting
Nohora J. Duhaney
BSBA Accounting
Louis R. Earle
Dona L. Halden
Beth Anne Harris
Kim Y. Lee
Nancv Callan Lynch
Betsy Gail Moses
BSBA
BSBA Accounting
BSBA Accounting
BSBA Accounting
BSBA
BSBA Accounting
Accounting/Computer
Accounting/Computer
Systems
Systems
Robert Lee Pearre
BSBA
Accounting/Computer
Systems
Sharon Melinda
Rochow
BSBA
Accounting/Finance
Gary Bruce Rosenfeld
BSBA
Accounting/Computer
Systems
Daniel Phillip Ross
BSBA
Accounting/Computer
Systems
Andrew K. Rubin John Paul Samonsky
BSBA Accounting BSBA
Accounting/Computer
Systems
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Samuel S. Scheinberg
BSBA Accounting
Saul Robert Wagner
Austrie S. Waloejo
Edward J.
Scott Lawrence
Achilleas C.
BSBA Accounting
BSBA Accounting
Westreicher, Jr.
Wichansky
Yiallouros
BSBA
BSBA Accounting
BSBA
Accounting/Finance
Accounting/Finance
293
P.C. Kumar, chair, finance and business
institutions
The Department of Finance offers two
majors in the B.S.B.A. degree program: fi-
nance, and real estate and urban develop-
ment. In addition to university require-
ments, the finance student may choose to
study international finance, money and
banking, investment analysis, accounting
and other related courses. The finance
major also studies a variety of educational
topics offered through the business col-
lege.
Real estate and urban development ma-
| jors expand their knowledge of economics,
° housing policy, the residential develop-
h ment process, investment strategy and real
estate transactions hoping to apply their
skills to the professional field.
Finance
and
Business
Institutions
Department
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Ronald W. Barner
BSBA Finance
Stephen G. Bernardo
BSBA Finance
Douglas Alan Blank
BSBA Real Estate and
Urban Development
Marcy R. Boroff
BSBA Finance
Steven Paul Brown
Edward Buckson, )r.
Patricia Ann Chan
Ekpet Chansue
Susan B. Davis
Larry David Eudune
BSBA Finance
BSBA Finance
BSBA
BSBA
BSBA Real Estate and
BSBA Finance/CLEG
Finance/Computer
Finance/International
Urban Development
Systems
Business
Amy Lou Farbstein Jeffrey S. Ferrell
BSBA Finance BSBA Finance/
International Business
Andrew C. Foss Mitchell L. Friedman
BSBA BSBA Real Estate and
Finance/Computer Urban Development
Systems
Carmen E. Gilly
BSBA Finance
Benjamin Enrique
Gomez
BSBA
Finance/Marketing
Perla V. Gomez
BSBA Finance
Joseph Goulazian
BSBA F'inance
David M. Greiner
BSBA Finance
Kathryn J. Handschin
BSBA Finance
im*£1
Irian A. Jamieson
Todd Andrew
Erika Leigh Kill
Barry Michael
El Hassan Lazrak
Cathi M. Lert
BSBA Finance
Kaufman
BSBA Finance
Kornfeld
BSBA
BSBA Finance
BSBA Finance/Real
BSBA Finance
F'inance/International
Estate and Urban
Business
Development
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Anna M Lombardo
BSBA
Finance/International
Bruce Allen Frank Matthew
Markowitz Palumbo
BSBA Finance BSBA Real Estate and
Urban Development
Marc David Rosenberg
BSBA Finance/Real
Estate Urban
Development
Steven G. Ross
BSBA Finance
Lori L. Sandler
BSBA Finance
Sila R. Sarkawi Andrew Nathan Shure
BSBA Finance BSBA Finance
Tina Lynne Silver
BSBA Finance
Laura Ann Simon
BSBA Finance
Lauren Stacy
Valentine
BSBA Finance
John M. Viglotti
BSBA
Finance/Computer
Systems
295
f^^T
International
Business
Center
James Sood, director, IBC
Washington is a prime location for the
study of international business. Here stu-
dents meet people from around the world
and important contacts for future employ-
ment. International business majors study
international marketing, finance, busi-
ness, business management and current
issues.
In addition, these students may choose
from among several business programs
offered overseas through the Center for Re-
search and Documentation on the Euro-
pean Community. CERDEC offers ex-
change programs with the University of
Antwerp and the Universidad de Madrid
and a course in Europe covering the Euro-
pean Community.
296
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Karen Elizabeth
Agostinelli
BSBA International
Business
Sonia Denise Ajluni
BSBA International
Business
Claudia Amelia
Cordis
BSBA International
Business/Computer
Systems
Elise Pamela Cotler
BSBA International
Business
Christopher P.
Duignan
BSBA International
Business
Guy C. Enderle
BSBA International
Business
Claro Jose Fernandez
Feliciano
BSBA International
Business
Jorge Flores
BSBA International
Business
Yvelisse C. Granado
BSBA International
Business/Personnel
and Industrial
Relations
Helena M. Jordao
BSBA International
Business
Joshua S. Levine
BSBA International
Business
Maria McAhron
BSBA International
Business/Personnel
and Industrial
Relations
Maher Othman Delia Lynn Parson Simone Maria Praver Michael Hugh Raus Fay E. Rosen Michelle Lyn Russell
BSBA International BSBA International BSBA International BSBA International BSBA International BSBA International
Business Business Business Business Business/Marketing Business
Margaret Ann
Heidi Suzanne
Laura A. Vocino
David Scott Yannessa
Elssy F. Zapata
Hossein S. Zerehi
Silberstern
Skinner
BSBA International
BSBA International
BSBA International
BSBA International
BSBA International
BSBA International
Business
Business
Business
Business
Business/Physics
Business
297
Management
and
Policy
Studies
Department
Herbert Glazer, chair, management and policy studies Students may concentrate on computer
systems, or personnel and industrial rela-
tions in the business school's management
department. Computer systems majors re-
ceive the B.S.B.A. degree by completing
successfully six computer courses in addi-
tion to other business school and universi-
ty requirements.
The personnel and industrial relations
major is expected to complete coursework
in personnel and industrial relations ad-
ministration, wage and salary administra-
tion, pension and benefits management,
and equal opportunity.
298
Bader A. Almutlaq Susan M. Bertie Darnella Bivings Karen A. Bloom Rebecca P. Cohen Karl W. Fischer
BSBA Personnel and BSBA Personnel and BSBA Personnel and BSBA Personnel and BSBA Computer BSBA Personnel and
Industrial Relations Industrial Industrial Relations Industrial Relations Systems Industrial
Relations/Business Relations/Political
Economics Science
Dinh Tue Ha
Susan Nassiri
Robert Clinton
Michele E. Sheskin
Janice L. Torby
Lesley Virginia Wallace
BSBA Computer
BSBA Computer
Sampson
BSBA Computer
BSBA Personnel and
BSBA Personnel and
Systems
Systems
BSBA Computer
Systems
Systems/Finance
Industrial Relations
Industrial Relations
299
Marketing
Department
The marketing department offers majors
in procurement/acquisition and grants
management and marketing to students in
the business school. The marketing stu-
dent must study different aspects of con-
sumer behavior by learning to conduct re-
search and by acquiring the necessary
business skills to put that research to good
use. Marketing majors, therefore, study
promotion management, advertising cam-
paigns, marketing problems and other
aspects of management depending upon
their career interests.
Procurement/acquisition and grants
management majors take courses that cov-
er federal assistance management, govern-
ment contact law, cost and price analysis,
and contract administration.
Michael Mazis. chair, marketing
John Michael Bacon
BSBA Marketing
Sarah Elizabeth Board
BSBA Marketing
Robin L. Captain
BSBA Marketing
Michael Stuart Chase
BSBA Marketing
Pamela M. Cebulski
BSBA
Marketing/
International Business
Richard Alan Cohen
Mary Ellen Elizabeth
Butch Lawrence
Stacey J. Denis
Maris Patricia Dukas
BSBA Marketing
Coyne
David
BSBA Marketing
BSBA
BSBA Marketing
BSBA Marketing
Marketing/Computer
Systems
AiMAM
Clifton W. Farbstein Robert Scott Frankel
BSBA BSBA Marketing
Marketing/
International Business
Neil L. Ganz David Adam Goldberg Chip A. Greene Jonathan Scott
BSBA Marketing BSBA BSBA Marketing Greenseid
Marketing/Finance BSBA Marketing
ir^LLi
Mary Louise Saul J. Hoppenstein Carol Katzenberger Iris Eleanore Knight Heather V. Leanna Mitchell S. Lieberman
Henwood BSBA Marketing BSBA Marketing BSBA BSBA Marketing BSBA Marketing
BSBA Marketing Procurement/
Acquisition and
Grants Management
Jorge A. Ortega
BSBA Marketing
Marleen Parnett
BSBA Marketing
Jeanette T. Quinn
BSBA Marketing
Ronni B. Russell
BSBA Marketing
Angel E. Saltos Erica Carol Schwartz
BSBA Marketing BSBA Marketing
Lori R. Specter
BSBA Marketing
AMk*
Jody Ann Spiegel
BSBA Marketing
Brian Keith Ufberg
BSBA Marketing
Alan Claude Ward
BSBA Marketing
Michelle Yameen
BSBA Marketing
Nancy Lynn Zaret
BSBA Marketing
301
Lucy
Webb
Hayes
School
of
Nursing
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Josephine Gimble, Acting Dean of SON
302 c a d e m i a
U's School of Nursing,
named for Lucy Webb
Hayes, wife of President
Rutherford B. Hayes, is
the smallest of the five
major academic units at the university.
The size allows for the individual attention
that is necessary to train for a career in the
modern nursing world.
Students earn a Bachelor of Science de-
gree in nursing, with courses in the biology
and chemistry departments, in addition to
the courses they take in the nursing school.
SON is associated with several Washing-
ton area health care agencies to provide
students with sites for clinical practice.
Among the agencies are Sibley Memorial
Hospital, Children's Hospital National
Medical Center and the National Naval
Medical Center.
303
Crystal Groth
Nursing
Crystal Groth, assistant professor in
the School of Nursing, has taught in
AU's Lucy Webb Hayes School of Nurs-
ing for five years. She was attracted to
AU because she believes a smaller
school offers a greater opportunity for
interaction among faculty and students.
This interest, however, is not limited to
the nursing school. Groth attributes
the success of last year's Student Health
Fair to the mingling of people at AU.
Groth is very enthusiastic when talk-
ing about the nursing program. The
faculty has recently revised the pro-
gram's curriculum making it more re-
flective of shifts in nursing today. New
training is necessary for new situations.
Nurses are moving out of hospital set-
tings into the community. Advances in
medical treatment and procedures de-
mand more of nurses now.
Professor Groth, a native of Chicago,
moved to Oregon when she was thir-
teen. She completed her undergraduate
studies at the University of Oregon, and
earned her graduate degree from Catho-
lic University. She believes that stu-
dents in the nursing program are com-
mitted to completing their education.
They are highly motivated and few peo-
ple drop out.
The advice Groth offers to those en-
tering the School of Nursing: be pre-
pared to work hard, to develop a strong
discipline, and keep up with the work. If
a nursing student can do all of this, the
program can provide the rest.
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BS Nursing
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epilogue
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here
hardly could be a
tougher assignment.
What on earth is an
academically ordinary
college student
suppose to say to a
wide array of
adequate-to-superior
college colleagues? It's
a temptation to fall
back on cliches and
under-and
over-statements, as
well as those
observations about the
"threshold of life,"
and all the
conventional
congratulations on
finishing (whether
successfully, or not)
the task of one more
year.
(continued on page 310)
Joseph McGill is currently a doctoral student
in the School of Education and plans to finish
his program by the end of 1986. He also
ivorks as an administrator in the Division of
Student Life.
308
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o you know how
easy it is in this sort of effort to simply
hand out advice to you? It is only easier
to hand out advice and not follow it
yourself. All the same, it's just as
tempting to discourse on what not to be
and what not to do as well as what to be
and how to go about being it. But dare I
bother you with all that, for after all, I
am out of date myself and I like out of
date things, . . . and ideas, so no one
need listen who does not want to.
The rest of you, come closer.
Let us sit upon the ground and tell our
stories of the future, and talk of what it
is ahead of us that needs to be done. Let
me make a suggestion too, a suggestion
that for the next few moments you
project yourselves forward to what will
seem to you an astronomically distant
date . . . the date of your 25th reunion.
The year is 2010.
To this undoubtedly each of you will
come flocking with enthusiasm, a few
minor infirmities and perhaps an
eighteen-year-old whom you're entering
here and who, although he loves you
dearly, is quite mortified by you most of
the time.
(continued on page 312)
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he vision of
awful examples dance in my head. We
meet at the now elderly Khashoggi
Center Alumni Room. Over there, by the
booze, is the career-man whose position
and place has become a psychotic
obsession and there with him is the
high-pressure career-woman, smartly
"with-it," and trying her best to prove it.
There is that tragic figure . . . the one
that used to try so hard to be popular
and be seen at all the right places . . .
still trying. There are those who are
noticeably missing, like the fellow voted
"Most like to ... " who committed
suicide half-way there.
(continued on page 314)
312
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ou know these
types . . . these stereotypes . . . too busy
being busy to live. You have seen them
among the older generation, you can see
them in embryo amongst us. But
fortunately you can see also another sort
of person at our reunion . . . the person
who has not constricted himself to being
a type . . . who belongs to no generation
because he is quite ageless. He is
younger now than he was 25 years ago,
than you are today ... for his growing
up has been a growing young, his
maturity a process of renaissance, a
mental and spiritual growth, nurtured by
perception and awareness. He is that
enviable person who knows how to get
the most out of one's life.
To get the most out of one's life . . .
that's rather a wonderful phrase . . . the
sort of phrase one could wish would
catch in one's subconscious instead of
the usual crazy jingles or those stupid
commercials such as, "Where's the
beef?" To get the most out of one's life
strikes me as being one of the best
objectives we might set for ourselves. It
is a highly honorable and personal
objective and we must each go about its
attainment to the beat of our own
drummer.
Someone once said that youth was
wasted on the young. Perhaps, but if
youth serves any purpose beyond simply
having some point to begin a life it must
be to instill that inner and individual
vision that comes with the bliss and
simple ideology of being young. And
each of us has the choice of whether to
keep that vision clear and alive or
whether to let it fade and vanish.
(continued on page 316)
epilogue 315
erhaps our most
wonderful and terrible responsibility is
the responsibility of vision and choice.
To make the choice of pursuing that
vision and to maintain that pursuit is no
easy matter. It seems at times as we
grow older that this pursuit takes on the
hopeless unreality of the pursuit of a
mirage. And yet that mirage is probably
our only reality in these horrifying times
of unprecedented holocaust, from South
Africa to the Bomb itself. Even a good
nebulous vision is something to count
on in this sometimes sorry world . . .
and if more people counted on it, the
world would, sometimes, be a lot less
sorry. We are in a time when we cannot
assuredly count on technology nor can
we comfortably count on our present
day civilization. It might be comforting
to believe that we can rely on our fellow
man, but man under the brutal
fragmentation of the times can be sadly
lacking in fellowship. Some of us, those
who are indeed fortunate, can count on
the solaces of family, religion and
friends, but faith jn any of these can
waver and sometimes vanish for good
. . . and what is there to take its place?
There is the vision . . . and our choice to
follow it. And maybe that isn't too bad a
religion in itself.
(continued on page 318)
p i I o g it e 317
or the vision is
always there. It is fleeting, to be sure, it
changes as our perceptions change, as
our experiences shift and our awareness
broadens. It will be there as long as we
pursue life in a way which gets the most
out of it for us. And the irony of
dedicating ourselves to the pursuit of
this vision is that we never do attain it
. . . sort of a divine irritant, God's sense
of humor, that goads us into constant
struggle and that which makes life
possible.
For all the number of the future
distinguished among us . . . the writers,
painters, politicians, statesmen to be,
there will also be a number of the quite
undistinguished, whose occupation the
census in our year of 2010 will list as
mere "so and so." but who in their way
are true artists. They will have chosen
the way of awareness, the way of the
vision . . . the way of the artist, because
living is the greatest of the arts, and all
artists are not to be found purely within
the confines of the fine or the liberal
arts.
(continued on page 320)
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t takes courage
and conviction to make the choice and
to continue in it. for the way of the
vision is hard . . . often filled with
disappointment, and with more
heartbreak than reward. We must not
wait thinking that life or inspiration will
define us, we must not count on that for
our living. We must enroll in a new
school of thought. It is a trying, exacting
school which grants no holidays but
continues always until death hands out
the diplomas. In it one acquires the hard
education of self-searching, education in
the courage to be constantly taking apart
and reassembling, to be constantly
perfecting even when knowing that
perfection will never be reached. In this
school we can never take time off to be
impressed by the results of production.
To be impressed or depressed by results
is the easiest of distractions. There are
many distractions, too. Public opinion is
the strongest, dangerous when it's
over-favorable, brutal when it is not.
when we have to face the bitter
experience of realizing that people fail to
understand what we are trying to
convey.
< continued on page 322)
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321
pinion, which
can be helpful, must never for an instant
divert us from what we know in our
hearts we are trying to convey. For
honesty leads one to truth. If we can
remain honest with ourselves, the
vision, which is always there, never lets
us down. We can only let ourselves
down. And when we do, we let
ourselves into our own individual hell.
And if there is a hell, it begins on the
day when God grants us a clear vision of
all that we might have achieved, of all
the gifts which we have wasted, of all
that we might have done which we did
not do.
The poet shall forever scream the
poems which he never wrote: the painter
will be forever obsessed by visions of
the pictures which he did not paint: the
musician will seek in vain to remember
the sounds which he failed to set down
on paper.
There are perhaps a few of life's artists
who are resting in heavenly peace:
Newton, van Gogh, Chekhov and a few
other minor characters who have
merited that peace. But for the weak, the
lazy, the damned — their torture shall
be the more horrible in proportion to the
greatness of the genius they have
wasted.
It seems the conception of Hell can be
summed up in two words: TOO LATE.
(continued on page 324)
MARY GRAYDON CENTER
epilogue 323
ell, for us, it is
anything but too late. Each of us,
eventually, will receive the impressively
engraved replicated skin of a dead
sheep, which according to popular
folklore indicates that we have also
received an education. That is perhaps
the greatest fraud of a university,
because surely each of us must be quite
aware that our education is only just
beginning. Our higher education is our
own individual university in which each
of us is the dean, president, student
body and janitor.
We are preparing to go forth into the
world . . . there! I knew that cliche
would come out somewhere. Well, we
are going forth into the world. And it's
not such a pretty world all the time. It is
a world of uncertainty. But that very
uncertainty of the world can give us our
own certainties. And when it does, we
know them as our certainties; they will
be simple and clear. They may even
seem commonplace. But I beg of you to
keep them so ... to have the courage of
your vision. Because life is simple. The
vision is simple and to follow it is our
certainty. We need to expect times of
misgiving, we may in ourselves never
find complete security but we can
always find courage . . . the courage to
live by our visions, the courage to get
the most out of one's life.
(continued on page 326)
325
o the next time
you are wondering and want to know
who we are now and where we are going
25 years from now and will we end up
just like all the other generations before
us (who also thought they were special)
then we need to look to our future as if
it were our past and in the vision
discover the certainties, and live them. It
seems that perhaps this is the best we
can do . . . for now.
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